®Planning appeal decision
Land at Oakamoor Road, Cheadle, Staffordshire, ST10 1SS
Planning appeal 3340461 at Land at Oakamoor Road, Cheadle, Staffordshire, ST10 1SS (Staffordshire Moorlands District Council) was allowed on 17 January 2025 by Inspector Mageean A, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The effect of the proposal on the settings of heritage assets.
an application for outline planning permission for the erection of up to 48 no. dwellings
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Mageean A
- Postcode
- ST10 1SS
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The effect of the proposal on the settings of heritage assets
- The effect of the proposal on the landscape and visual character of the area
- Whether the proposals conflict with the provisions of the development plan and, if so, whether any conflict and harm arising would be outweighed by other material considerations
What decided it
The significant weight attributable to the delivery of open market and affordable housing, in the context of a substantial shortfall in the Council's five-year housing land supply, outweighed the identified heritage and landscape harms.
The minor less-than-substantial heritage harm to Hales Hall and the moderate harm to the setting of the non-designated Pool, together with moderate adverse landscape and visual effects, were outweighed by the significant benefits of housing delivery (including affordable housing) and moderate economic and environmental benefits, so the presumption in favour of sustainable development applied and the appeal was allowed.
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy DC 1Policy DC 2Policy DC 3Policy H 1Policy H 3Policy SS 1Policy SS 2Policy SS 4Policy SS 7Policy SS 10Policy SS 12Policy C 1Policy C 2Policy T 1
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 11Paragraph 58Paragraph 76Paragraph 78Paragraph 135Paragraph 187Paragraph 202Paragraph 212Paragraph 215Paragraph 216
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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The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.