®Planning appeal decision
Land rear of Monkton House (formerly Bindon House), Monkton Lane, Farnham, GU9 9ND
outline application with all matters reserved except access for the erection of 56 dwellings (of which 40% are affordable – 23 dwellings)
- Authority
- Waverley Borough Council
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Parsons J
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the site is an acceptable location for housing, having regard to the effect of the proposal on the character and appearance of the area and whether it would lead to increased coalescence of settlements
- the provision of affordable housing
- the integrity of the TBHSPA, the Wealden Heaths SPA (WHSPA) and Wealden Heaths Special Area of Conservation (WHSAC)
What decided it
Under the tilted balance triggered by the Council's deficient 5 year housing land supply, the substantial benefits of housing and above-policy affordable housing provision outweighed the limited, localised landscape and character harm.
The substantial benefits of housing delivery, particularly the above-policy level of affordable housing, together with lesser economic, biodiversity and recreational benefits, were found to outweigh the small, localised harm to character and appearance, such that the adverse effects did not significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits when assessed against the Framework as a whole.
Framework references: 11, 56, 57, 60, 198
Plan policies cited: Policy ALH1, Policy SP2, Policy RE1, Policy RE3, Policy AHN1, Policy ICS1, Policy DM15, Policy DM9, Policy DM4, Policy FNP10, Policy FNP14, Policy FNP1, Policy FNP11, Policy FNP12, Policy FNP13, Policy FNP27, Policy FNP30, Policy NRM6
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.