®Planning appeal decision
Maldon Farm, Bullington Lane, Sutton Scotney, Hampshire, SO21 3LA
demolition of existing agricultural buildings and a dwelling, extension of the existing mobile home site to accommodate 29 additional mobile homes, associated parking, a package sewage treatment plant and reed bed
- Authority
- Winchester City Council
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Nicholls H
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the proposal accords with the development plan in terms of its location and nature
- whether the proposed units would constitute affordable housing
- the effects of the proposal on biodiversity, including protected species
- the effects of the proposal on the Solent Protected Sites
What decided it
The cumulative and unresolved harms — conflict with the development plan's spatial strategy, failure to secure genuine affordable housing, unquantified harm to protected species, and unproven mitigation of nitrate impacts on the Solent Protected Sites — outweighed the limited benefits of the scheme.
the modest benefits of net housing supply, economic activity and partial reuse of previously developed land did not outweigh the identified harms of development plan conflict, lack of affordable housing, harm to protected species, and unresolved harm to the integrity of the Solent Protected Sites
Framework references: 11, 63, 89, 226
Plan policies cited: Policy DS1, Policy MTRA4, Policy DM1, Policies DM10 – DM13, Policy CP3, Policy CP16, Policy CS16, Policy MTRA2, Policy MTRA3
Judgments cited: Wenman v The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) Waverley Borough Council (2) [2015] EWHC 925
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.