®Planning appeal decision
Land at Pound Lane, Magpie Hall Road, Bond Lane and Ashford Road, Kingsnorth , ASHFORD, Kent, TN23 3BJ
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.
Framework references: 174
Plan policies cited: Policy IMP1, Policy IMP2, Policy HOU1, Policy S3, Policy S4, Policy S5, Policy SP1, Policy SP6, Policy TRA5, Policy TRA6, Policy TRA7, Policy TRA8, Policy ENV1, Policy ENV4, Policy ENV5, Policy ENV6, Policy ENV7, Policy ENV8, Policy ENV9, Policy ENV12, Policy ENV13, Policy ENV15, Policy COM2, Policy EMP6
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.