Walsingham House, Lionel Road, Canvey Island, SS8 9DE

Planning appeal 3330878 at Walsingham House, Lionel Road, Canvey Island, SS8 9DE (Castle Point Borough Council) was dismissed on 9 December 2024 by Inspector Wallace J, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the proposed development would make appropriate contributions to meet the demands generated by development including for affordable housing.

Proposed Phase 2 to application 21/0688/Ful to provide 13 NO Flats and 20 No Residential Houses

Authority: Castle Point Borough Council
Appeal type: major · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Hearing
Development: residential · Major dwellings
Inspector: Wallace J
Postcode: SS8 9DE

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

whether the proposed development would make appropriate contributions to meet the demands generated by development including for affordable housing

What decided it

The proposal's failure, given the more compelling viability evidence, to secure a robust mechanism for an affordable housing contribution, weighed against benefits already secured through an extant fallback permission.

The limited weight benefits of housing and economic delivery (reduced by the extant fallback permission) did not significantly and demonstrably outweigh the significant weight adverse effect of the lack of an affordable housing contribution.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: Policy H7
National Planning Policy Framework: Paragraph 11Paragraph 57
Judgments: Holborn Studios Ltd v The Council of the London Borough of Hackney [2017] EWHC 2823 (Admin)

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