®Planning appeal decision
Noctorum Field, Prenton, CH43 9UQ
the demolition of the existing pavilion and erection of up to 33 dwellings and associated infrastructure. All matters are reserved except for access
- Authority
- Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Watson S
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the playing field to be lost by the proposed development would be replaced by equivalent or better provision in terms of quantity and quality
- whether the planning obligations would be necessary to make the development acceptable in planning terms; directly related to the development and fairly and reasonably related in scale and kind to the development
What decided it
The proposed replacement playing field provision was found not to be equivalent or better than the field to be lost in terms of both quantity and quality, causing very substantial harm that outweighed the scheme's benefits.
the benefits of the scheme (affordable housing, economic benefits, sustainable housing provision) did not outweigh the very substantial harm found in relation to playing field provision, so the appeal was dismissed
Framework references: 103, 97
Plan policies cited: Policy HS4, Policy GR1, Policy GR2, Policy RE6, Policy RE5, Policy HSG2, Policy HS6, Policy WS3.3, Policy WS5.3, Policy GR6, Policy RE11, Policy WS5.2
Judgments cited: R(Brommell) v Reading Borough Council [2018] EWHC3529 (Admin); Shadwell Estates Ltd v Breckland DC WL 127846 (2013)
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.