®Planning appeal decision
Land off Main Road, Earls Barton, NN6 0TW
- Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Jenkins I
- Postcode
- NN6 0TW
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The effect of the proposal on the spatial development strategy for the area
- The effect on the character and appearance of the local area
- The effect on the supply of Affordable Housing
- Whether the proposal makes adequate provision for measures to mitigate the impacts of the development on the local area with particular reference to infrastructure, services, facilities, amenities, biodiversity net gain and measures to address potential impacts on the Upper Nene Valley Gravel Pits Special Protection Area (SPA)
- The planning balance
What decided it
The proposal's conflict with the development plan's spatial development strategy and its moderate-substantial harm to character and appearance outweighed the limited benefits of affordable housing provision.
The substantial harm arising from conflict with the development plan taken as a whole outweighed the limited positive weight of affordable housing delivery, moderate economic benefits and limited social/biodiversity benefits, so the appeal was dismissed.
Framework references: 57
Plan policies cited: JCS Policy 1, JCS Policy 3, JCS Policy 3a, JCS Policy 3b, JCS Policy 3d, JCS Policy 4, JCS Policy 7, JCS Policy 8, JCS Policy 10, JCS Policy 11, JCS Policy 13, JCS Policy 19, JCS Policy 20, JCS Policy 29, JCS Policy 30, NP Policy EB.GD2, NP Policy EB.G1, NP Policy DB.DC1
Judgments cited: Kings Lynn & West Norfolk vs DCLG CO/914/2015, 9 July 2015
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.