®Planning appeal decision
Keymer Road, Hassocks, West Sussex, BN6 8QP
Redevelopment for Retirement Living accommodation for older people comprising 41no. apartments including communal facilities, access, car parking, and landscaping
- Authority
- Mid Sussex District Council
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Dowsett J
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The effect of the proposed development on the character and appearance of the area
- The effect of the proposed development on the living conditions of the occupiers of neighbouring residential properties, with particular regard to privacy, noise and disturbance, and light pollution
What decided it
The critical and largely unmet need for older persons' housing, deliverable in the short term on a sustainably located, previously developed site, outweighed the limited and localised harm to living conditions at one neighbouring property.
the substantial benefits of providing much-needed older persons' housing, together with sustainability, previously-developed-land, and economic/environmental benefits, outweighed the significant but narrowly confined harm to the living conditions of 66A Keymer Road, so that permission should be granted despite conflict with part of MSDP Policy DP26 and NP Policy 9
Framework references: 57
Plan policies cited: MSDP Policy DP26, NP Policy 9, Design Guide Principle DG39, MSDP Policy DP31, MSDP Policy 24, MSDP Policy DP25, MSDP Policy DP21, Policy DHP4, Emerging Policy DPH4
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.