Liss Forest Nursery, Petersfield Road, Greatham, LISS, GU33 6HA

37 dwellings (including affordable homes), alterations to existing access onto Petersfield Road, hard and soft landscaping, drainage and all other associated development works

Authority: South Downs
Appeal type: other · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Inquiry
Development: residential · Unknown
Inspector: Longmuir J

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

whether the proposal would provide an acceptable level of affordable housing provision
the effect of the proposal on The Wealden Heaths Phase II Special Protection Area

What decided it

The proposal was found to accord with the development plan as a whole, with the previously contentious affordable housing provision justified by an agreed viability appraisal and the SPA impacts satisfactorily mitigated by planning obligation.

the proposal accords with the development plan taken as a whole and material considerations do not indicate otherwise, so the appeal should be allowed

Framework references: 177, 58, 34, 2, 56, 54, 57

Plan policies cited: Strategic Policy SD71, Policy SD28, Strategic Policy 9, Strategic Policy 10, Strategic Policy SD19, Strategic Policy SD20, Strategic Policy SD8

Judgments cited: Lisle-Mainwaring and the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government v Carroll [2017] EWCA Civ 1315

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