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Allowed6 November 20233320146

Land at Pound Lane, Magpie Hall Road, Bond Lane and Ashford Road, Kingsnorth , Ashford, Kent, TN23 3BJ

Planning appeal 3320146 at Land at Pound Lane, Magpie Hall Road, Bond Lane and Ashford Road, Kingsnorth , Ashford, Kent, TN23 3BJ (Ashford Borough Council) was allowed on 6 November 2023 by Inspector Boniface M, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The effect on local highways.

up to 550 dwellings in a mix of size, type and tenure. Provision of local recycling facilities. Provision of areas of formal and informal open space. Installation of utilities, infrastructure to serve the development including flood attenuation, surface water attenuation, water supply, waste water facilities, gas supply, electricity supply (including sub-station, telecommunications infrastructure and renewable energy). Transport infrastructure including highway improvements in the vicinity of Ashford Road/Magpie Hall Road/Steeds Lane, Pound Lane and Bond Lane, plus an internal network of roads and junctions, footpaths and cycle routes. New planting and landscaping both within the proposed development and on its boundaries as well as ecological enhancement works. Associated groundworks

Authority
Ashford Borough Council
Appeal type
major · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Inquiry
Development
residential · Major dwellings
Inspector
Boniface M

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • The effect on local highways
  • The effect on ecology
  • Whether the development can achieve nutrient neutrality and avoid adverse effects on European protected sites
  • Whether the scheme can deliver CIL compliant planning obligations having regard to financial viability

What decided it

The Inspector's satisfaction that the scheme would achieve nutrient neutrality without harming the integrity of the Stodmarsh European protected sites, combined with the proposal's accordance with the development plan as a whole, was decisive in allowing the appeal.

Heritage, landscape and visual harms were outweighed by the substantial public benefits of the scheme, particularly the delivery of much-needed market and affordable housing, and overall the proposal accorded with the development plan taken as a whole.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy IMP1Policy IMP2Policy HOU1Policy S3Policy S4Policy S5Policy SP1Policy SP6Policy TRA5Policy TRA6Policy TRA7Policy TRA8Policy ENV1Policy ENV4Policy ENV5Policy ENV6Policy ENV7Policy ENV8Policy ENV9Policy ENV12Policy ENV13Policy ENV15Policy COM2Policy EMP6
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 174

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