®Planning appeal decision
Land adjacent to 1 Coldharbour Farm Cottages, Coldharbour Road, Lower Dicker, Hailsham, East Sussex, BN27 3PU
‘permission in principle for residential development on land adjacent to 1 Coldharbour Farm Cottages for 3 or 4 houses’
- Authority
- Wealden District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Smith J
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the site is suitable for residential development, having regard to its location, the proposed land use and the amount of development, with reference to the Council's spatial strategy and accessibility to services and facilities
What decided it
The significant and protracted shortfall in housing land supply, combined with the site's location within a rural community with reasonable access to services by public transport, meant the presumption in favour of sustainable development applied and the benefits of delivering family homes outweighed the policy conflicts and locational disadvantages.
The moderate weight given to the delivery of a small number of new family homes and economic benefits, balanced against moderate weight to the disadvantages of the site's location and the need to travel, resulted in the adverse impacts not significantly and demonstrably outweighing the benefits, triggering the presumption in favour of sustainable development.
Framework references: 11, 11d
Plan policies cited: Policy GD2, Policy DC17, Policy WCS6, Policy EN1, Policy WCS14, Spatial Planning Objective SPO7, Spatial Planning Objective SPO8
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.