®Planning appeal decision
Rectory Farm, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, Dacorum, WD4 8HG
Planning appeal 3333545 at Rectory Farm, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, Dacorum, WD4 8HG (Dacorum Borough Council) was allowed on 9 May 2024 by Inspector Young D, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the proposal would secure the necessary SANG mitigation such that I can be satisfied there would be no adverse effect on the integrity of the SAC.
a comprehensive development comprising 135 residential units, new community buildings (including cafe and farm shop, cycle hub, repair shed, meeting & office space) creation of new public open space and play space, provision of new vehicular and pedestrian access from Hempstead Road, provision of cycle and car parking and associated works
- Authority
- Dacorum Borough Council
- Appeal type
- other · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- residential · Unknown
- Inspector
- Young D
- Postcode
- WD4 8HG
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal would secure the necessary SANG mitigation such that I can be satisfied there would be no adverse effect on the integrity of the SAC
- Whether the harm by reason of inappropriateness, and any other relevant harm, is clearly outweighed by other considerations, so as to amount to the very special circumstances necessary to justify development in the Green Belt
What decided it
The very substantial weight attached to the delivery of much-needed market and affordable housing, combined with the finding that suitable SANG mitigation could be secured via a Grampian condition, clearly outweighed the identified Green Belt and other harms.
the moderate harm to Green Belt openness and purposes and very limited landscape/visual harm were clearly outweighed by the housing, affordable housing, public open space, community facility, biodiversity net gain and economic benefits, amounting to very special circumstances justifying development in the Green Belt
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy CS5Policy SP26
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 57Paragraph 153Paragraph 188
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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