Border Fencing, Lower House Farm Stoney Lane, Tardebigge, BROMSGROVE, B60 1LY

the re-development of former fencing and timber building construction business for residential development

Authority: Bromsgrove District Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector: Rawle S

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

whether the appeal site is an appropriate location for the proposed dwellinghouses having regard to the relevant development plan policies relating to development within rural areas

What decided it

The Council's shortfall in five-year housing land supply (3.3 years) engaged paragraph 11(d) of the Framework, applying the tilted balance under which the moderate harm from policy conflict was outweighed by the moderate benefits of housing delivery and heritage improvements.

The moderate adverse impacts of conflict with the development plan and unsustainable location were outweighed by the moderate benefits of five additional dwellings on previously developed land in a district with housing shortfall and the moderate benefits of visual and heritage improvements, such that the presumption in favour of sustainable development applied.

Framework references: 11, 80, 105, 108, 110, 149, 150, 8, 79, 104

Plan policies cited: Policy BDP1, Policy BDP2, Policy BDP 1.4

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Heritage. Listed buildings by grade and distance, conservation areas, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, heritage at risk.
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