®Planning appeal decision
The White Horse Ph, High Street, London Colney , Hertfordshire, AL2 1JY
Planning appeal 3331288 at The White Horse Ph, High Street, London Colney , Hertfordshire, AL2 1JY (St Albans City Council) was dismissed on 16 July 2024 by Inspector Smith J, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether acceptable living conditions would be provided for future occupiers, with regard to the amount and quality of outdoor amenity space.
‘retention of existing public house and garden and erection of 4no. flats (Use Class C3) with access from Morris Way, associated parking, landscaping, and reconfiguration of public house car park including replacement storage shed’
- Authority
- St Albans City Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Smith J
- Postcode
- AL2 1JY
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether acceptable living conditions would be provided for future occupiers, with regard to the amount and quality of outdoor amenity space
- the effect of the proposed parking arrangements on highway safety
What decided it
The significant adverse effect on future occupiers' enjoyment of outdoor amenity space due to noise and disturbance from the public house, combined with the unacceptable impact on highway safety from inadequate parking provision, cumulatively outweighed the modest housing benefits.
The modest benefits of housing delivery on a brownfield site were significantly and demonstrably outweighed by the cumulative harm to living conditions and highway safety and conflict with the development plan, such that the presumption in favour of sustainable development did not apply.
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy 70Policy 69Policy 40Policy 39
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 11Paragraph 111Paragraph 115Paragraph 135Paragraph 193
How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.
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