®Planning appeal decision
Land At Newnham Court Way, Weavering, Maidstone, Kent, ME14 5FT
- Authority
- Maidstone Borough Council
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- retail · Major retail and services
- Inspector
- Shrigley M
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- the acceptability of the principle of a food store use in the location proposed having regard to planning policy
- the visual impact of the development on the character and appearance of the area
- the planning merits informing any overall planning balance
What decided it
The Inspector concluded the proposal accorded with Policy RMX1(1) and the development plan as a whole, and that in any event the substantial job creation and economic benefits outweighed any harm from the reduced maximum medical campus floorspace.
the substantial economic and employment benefits of the scheme outweighed the notional reduction in the maximum 100,000m2 medical campus floorspace allocation and all other harms identified, even had a breach of the development plan been found
Framework references: 135, 115, 11
Plan policies cited: SS1, SP1, RMX1, LPRSS1, LPRSP2, LPRSO11(B), DM16, DM17, LPRCD1, RMX1(1), DM1, LPRSP15, LPRSP14a, LPRSP12, LPRSP13, LPRSP11
Judgments cited: Tesco v Dundee [2012]
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