®Planning appeal decision
The White Horse Ph, High Street, London Colney , Hertfordshire, AL2 1JY
‘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
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.
Framework references: 11, 111, 115, 135, 193
Plan policies cited: Policy 70, Policy 69, Policy 40, Policy 39
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.