Portland Port, Castletown, Portland, Dorset, DT5 1PP

Authority: Dorset
Appeal type: other · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Inquiry
Development: utilities-energy · Unknown
Inspector: Griffiths P

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Waste policy and need
Heritage
Landscape

What decided it

The public benefits of the proposal (heritage mitigation, job creation, electricity generation/shore power, carbon reduction) were found to outweigh the 'less than substantial' heritage harm to the Grade II listed Dockyard Offices.

the public benefits of the proposal outweigh the 'less than substantial' harm to the designated heritage assets, so the Framework's heritage balance is favourable to the proposal

Framework references: 48, 56, 57, 208

Plan policies cited: Policy 1, Policy 4, Policy 6, Policy 12, Policy 14, Policy 18, Policy 19, Policy INT1, Policy ENV1, Policy ENV4, Policy Port/EN4, Policy Port/EN5, Policy Port/EN7, LP Policy ECON2

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