Springfield Golden Lane, Thorpe-Le-Soken, Clacton-on-Sea, CO16 0LD

Planning appeal 3321778 at Springfield Golden Lane, Thorpe-Le-Soken, Clacton-on-Sea, CO16 0LD (Tendring District Council) was dismissed on 5 April 2024 by Inspector Jones H, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the appeal site provides a suitable location for the development proposed, having particular regard to the development plan's spatial strategy and the effects of the development upon the character and appearance of the area.

outline planning application (access and layout to be considered) for the demolition of existing ancillary office and erection of 1no. three bedroom bungalow

Authority: Tendring District Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector: Jones H
Postcode: CO16 0LD

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the appeal site provides a suitable location for the development proposed, having particular regard to the development plan's spatial strategy and the effects of the development upon the character and appearance of the area

What decided it

The proposed dwelling's location outside the settlement boundary and in a backland position contrary to the development plan's spatial strategy and the prevailing linear pattern of residential development in the area.

The modest benefit to housing supply was outweighed by the harm arising from conflict with the spatial strategy and the character and appearance of the area

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: Policy SP3Policy SPL1Policy SPL2Policy SP7Policy SPL3Policy PPL3Policy LP4Policy SP4Policy LP1Policy PPL4Policy LP2

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

56 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 Tendring

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2024

Dismissed29 October 20266011370
35 Pelham Close, Harwich, CO12 4UR
Dismissed21 October 20266009821
36 Second Avenue, Frinton-on-Sea, CO13 9ER
Dismissed14 October 20266008901
Walton Hall, Old Hall Lane, Walton on The Naze, CO14 8LF
Allowed6 October 20266010689
9 Pallister Road, Clacton On Sea, CO15 1PQ
Allowed2 October 20266010933
The Little Boatyard, Lime Street, Brightlingsea, CO7 0BH

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.