Planning appeal decision
Land Adjacent to Bradmore , Eaves Green Lane, Meriden, Coventry, CV7 7JN
Planning appeal 3338384 at Land Adjacent to Bradmore , Eaves Green Lane, Meriden, Coventry, CV7 7JN (Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council) was allowed on 29 November 2024 by Inspector Shearing C, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt, having regard to the Framework and any relevant development plan policies and including the effects on the openness.
change of use from equine to C3 dwellinghouse
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Shearing C
- Postcode
- CV7 7JN
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt, having regard to the Framework and any relevant development plan policies and including the effects on the openness
- Whether the site is suitably located for new housing, with particular regard to its accessibility by sustainable means of transport
What decided it
The tilted balance under paragraph 11d)ii of the Framework, triggered by the Council's inability to demonstrate a five year housing land supply, meant the harm from the site's poor accessibility did not significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits of housing delivery.
the considerable weight given to the benefits of housing delivery and other benefits outweighed the considerable weight attached to the harm from the site's poor accessibility for housing, such that the adverse impacts did not significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy P17Policy P7Policy P5Policy P10
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 11Paragraph 142Paragraph 154Paragraph 155
- Judgments
- Turner v SSCLG & East Dorset Council [2016] EWCA Civ 466
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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