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Sedgehurst, Tickners Heath, Dunsfold Road, Alfold, Cranleigh, Surrey, GU6 8HU
Planning appeal 3319271 at Sedgehurst, Tickners Heath, Dunsfold Road, Alfold, Cranleigh, Surrey, GU6 8HU (Waverley Borough Council) was dismissed on 15 December 2023 by Inspector Buchanan R, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the site would be a suitable location for the dwellings with regard to relevant development plan policies.
erection of 2 no. dwellings following demolition of existing non-agricultural buildings
- Authority
- Waverley Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Buchanan R
- Postcode
- GU6 8HU
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the site would be a suitable location for the dwellings with regard to relevant development plan policies
- the effect of the proposal on the character or appearance of the area, including an area of great landscape value
What decided it
The individually important and cumulatively compelling adverse social and environmental impacts of residential development in an isolated, unsustainable countryside location with harm to landscape character substantially outweigh the modest housing benefits, even in the context of a housing land supply shortfall.
The modest social, economic and environmental benefits of delivering two dwellings and contributing to housing supply were significantly and demonstrably outweighed by the substantial adverse impacts of locating isolated homes in an unsustainable countryside location and causing unacceptable harm to character, appearance and landscape value, such that the presumption in favour of sustainable development did not apply.
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- LPP2 Policy DM1(c)LPP2 Policy DM1(h)LPP2 Policy DM4LPP2 Policy DM4(e)LPP2 Policy DM9(a)(iii)LPP2 Policy DM11LPP2 Policy DM15(a)LPP2 Policy DM15(b)LPP1 Policy RE1LPP1 Policy RE3(ii)
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 11Paragraph 80Paragraph 12
- Judgments
- Braintree DC v SSCLG, Greyread Ltd & Granville Developments Ltd [2017] EWHC 2743 (Admin); [2018] EWCA Civ 610; Braintree District Council v SSCLG & Ors [2017] EWHC 2743 (Admin)
How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.
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