Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Allowed14 December 20233319799

Silverlea, Konniki and Dapplewood, Cove Road, Fleet, GU51 2RR

Planning appeal 3319799 at Silverlea, Konniki and Dapplewood, Cove Road, Fleet, GU51 2RR (Hart District Council) was allowed on 14 December 2023 by Inspector King T, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: the effect of the proposed development on the character and appearance of the surrounding area, with particular regard to the proposed building's size and scale, and also the proposed loss of trees to facilitate the development.

Redevelopment of site to provide a 70 Bed care home (use class C2) including access, parking, landscaping and other associated works, following demolition of existing dwellings’. This

Authority
Hart District Council
Appeal type
major · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Hearing
Development
community-institutional · Other Major Developments
Inspector
King T
Postcode
GU51 2RR

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • the effect of the proposed development on the character and appearance of the surrounding area, with particular regard to the proposed building's size and scale, and also the proposed loss of trees to facilitate the development.
  • the effect of the proposal on the living conditions of neighbouring occupiers;
  • the effect of the proposal on the Council's housing stock, with particular regard to the loss of three bungalows and their potential suitability for future occupants with limited or impaired mobility; and
  • the effect of the proposal on highway safety.

What decided it

The absence of demonstrable harm to character, neighbours' living conditions or highway safety, combined with the significant benefits of the proposed care home, led to the appeal being allowed.

the significant benefits of providing care home accommodation for older people outweighed the limited concerns raised regarding housing stock loss, character and highway matters, tipping the balance in favour of the scheme

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy H4Policy NBE2Policy NBE9Policy INF3Policy GEN1Policy 10Policy 11
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 130Paragraph 131Paragraph 174Paragraph 119Paragraph 120Paragraph 111Paragraph 110

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.

See how each was applied

The decision letter

Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

33 other decided appeals within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision
An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter
Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.
Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app
Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.
Start your free trial

More decisions in Hart

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2023

  1. Dismissed3 September 20266004528
    Malthouse Mews, Brew House Lane, Hartley Wintney, RG27 8QA
  2. Dismissed30 July 20263375985
    Park and Ride, Elvetham Heath Way, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 1HG
  3. Dismissed30 July 20266005446
    18 Grenville Drive, Church Crookham, Fleet, GU51 5NR
  4. Allowed13 February 20266002947
    Highbank, Copse Lane, Long Sutton, Hampshire, RG29 1SX
  5. Allowed27 January 20263372608
    Grey House Mount Pleasant, Hartley Wintney, Hook, RG27 8PW

The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.

In the app this decision sits on the map beside every appeal around it, with its letter to read and the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out.