Planning appeal decision
Land North West of Kenilworth, Uphill, Cornwall, PL17 7PB
Planning appeal 3344184 at Land North West of Kenilworth, Uphill, Cornwall, PL17 7PB (Cornwall Council) was allowed on 13 March 2025 by Inspector Worley E, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the site is suitable for residential development, having regard to its location, the proposed land use and the amount of development.
Permission in principle (stage 1) for one infill dwelling on previously developed land (garden)
- Authority
- Cornwall Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Worley E
- Postcode
- PL17 7PB
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the site is suitable for residential development, having regard to its location, the proposed land use and the amount of development
What decided it
The Council's inability to demonstrate a five-year housing land supply rendered the neighbourhood plan's development boundary policies out of date, and the proposal's accordance with strategic policies in the Cornwall Local Plan and the presumption in favour of sustainable development under paragraph 11 of the Framework outweighed the conflict with neighbourhood plan policies.
the benefits of housing delivery, reuse of previously developed land, and accordance with strategic policies outweighed the conflict with neighbourhood plan development boundary policies in the context of a shortfall in housing land supply
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy 3 of the Cornwall Local Plan Strategic Policies 2010-2030Policy 21 of the Cornwall Local Plan Strategic Policies 2010-2030Policy 1 of the Cornwall Local Plan Strategic Policies 2010-2030Policy 2 of the Cornwall Local Plan Strategic Policies 2010-2030Policy GP1 of the Linkinhorne Neighbourhood Development PlanPolicy GP2 of the Linkinhorne Neighbourhood Development PlanPolicy H1 of the Linkinhorne Neighbourhood Development PlanPolicy 7 of the Cornwall Local Plan Strategic Policies 2010-2030Policy 9 of the Cornwall Local Plan Strategic Policies 2010-2030Policy C1 of the Climate Emergency Development Plan DocumentPolicy T1 of the Climate Emergency Development Plan Document
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 11Paragraph 14
- Judgments
- Chichester District Council v SSHCLG [2018] EWHC 2386 (Admin)
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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