®Planning appeal decision
Land Between 46-52 Cliffe Road, Strood, ROCHESTER, ME2 3DR
‘construction of semi detached properties consisting of 4 residential units with associated parking’
- Authority
- Medway 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 proposed development would provide suitable living conditions for future occupiers, with particular regard to the amount and layout of private amenity space
- the effect on biodiversity
What decided it
The poor quality and lack of privacy of the private amenity space proposed for future occupiers, which would provide an enduring harm to living conditions that outweighed the modest benefits of the four dwellings.
The significant harm to living conditions from inadequate and poor-quality private amenity space outweighed the modest benefits of housing delivery, such that the adverse impacts significantly and demonstrably outweighed the benefits and the presumption in favour of sustainable development did not apply.
Framework references: 11, 131, 135, 180
Plan policies cited: Policy BNE1, Policy BNE2, Policy H4
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.