Land at, Martley Road, Lower Broadheath, WR2 6RF

for up to 28 dwellings (40% affordable housing)

Authority: Malvern Hills District Council
Appeal type: major · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Major dwellings
Inspector: Rawle S

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether or not the appeal site is an appropriate location for the proposed development having regard to the settlement strategy and development plan policies relating to development within an area designated as a Significant Gap
Whether or not the proposal would provide sufficient provision for secondary school places

What decided it

The Council's inability to demonstrate a five-year housing supply, combined with the site's sustainable location and the modest harm from the Significant Gap conflict, engaged paragraph 11(d) of the Framework and tipped the balance decisively in favour of the proposal.

The significant weight afforded to housing delivery and the sustainable location of the development substantially outweighed the limited weight given to the conflict with Policy SWDP 2 regarding the Significant Gap, with paragraph 11(d) of the Framework indicating that permission should be granted.

Framework references: 11

Plan policies cited: Policy SWDP 2, Policy SWDP 1, Policy SWDP 4, Policy SWDP 7

Read the decision letter on the Inspectorate’s site

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What an account adds

Draw a red line around your site and the appraisal follows.

Heritage. Listed buildings by grade and distance, conservation areas, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, heritage at risk.
Landscape and environment. Green belt, national parks and national landscapes, SSSIs, ancient woodland, SPA, SAC and Ramsar sites, nutrient catchments.
Flooding. Flood zones 2 and 3, surface water, and both again with climate change.
Transport. The 800 metre station catchment and service frequency, bus stops with their weekday frequency, the cycle network, and the Framework’s transport tests measured for the site.

Then the development plan position, the housing land supply as an Inspector last accepted it, and every appeal decided around the site with its letter.

Every English appeal since 2016, with the letter behind it wherever the Inspectorate published one. Searched by meaning as well as by words, with the key case law counted live across the letters.

Casework that chases the deadlines. Applications, appeals and conditions with their statutory dates.

The judgement stays yours. The tool gathers the material and dates it.