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Allowed19 September 20253344456

Wheatleys Farm, Ashton Keynes, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN6 6NX

Planning appeal 3344456 at Wheatleys Farm, Ashton Keynes, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN6 6NX (Wiltshire Council) was allowed on 19 September 2025 by Inspector Middleton M, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the proposal is in accordance with the Development Plan when considered as a whole but in particular Policy MCS 1 of the Wiltshire and Swindon Minerals Core Strategy 2009 and Policy MDC1 of the Wiltshire and Swindon Minerals Development Control Policies Development Plan Document 2009.

Extraction and processing of sand and gravel, with associated site and access works including processing plant, silt lagoons, weighbridge, wheel-wash, site offices, welfare facilities and staff parking, with progressive restoration using imported inert materials to return the site to agricultural use and including lowland meadow for biodiversity enhancement

Authority
Wiltshire Council
Appeal type
other · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Inquiry
Development
minerals-waste · Unknown
Inspector
Middleton M
Postcode
SN6 6NX

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether the proposal is in accordance with the Development Plan when considered as a whole but in particular Policy MCS 1 of the Wiltshire and Swindon Minerals Core Strategy 2009 and Policy MDC1 of the Wiltshire and Swindon Minerals Development Control Policies Development Plan Document 2009
  • Whether there are any material considerations that when taken together and weighed against any advantages of the proposal, are sufficient to outweigh the presumption in favour of determining planning applications in accordance with the Development Plan

What decided it

The substantial weight attributable to the pressing local need to extract sand and gravel, given Wiltshire's severely depleted landbank, outweighed the identified but limited or moderate harms.

The substantial weight given to the need for the mineral, together with minor/moderate benefits to flood storage, waste disposal capacity, biodiversity, landscape, movement sustainability and jobs, outweighed the minor/moderate harms from dust, noise, ecology, landscape and highways, and outweighed the less-than-substantial heritage harm, such that the appeal was allowed.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy MCS 1Policy MDC1MCS 7MCS 8MCS 10CP 50CP 51CP 58CP 62MDC3Policy MDC2Policy MDC5Policy MDC6Policy MDC7Policy MDC8Policy MDC9Policy MDC10CP 52WCS3AKNP Policy INP1AKLP Policy ENP1NP Policy ENP3AKLP Policy ENP2
National Planning Policy Framework
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Judgments
R (Davies) v Secretary of State [2008] EWHC 2233 (Admin); R (Jenkins) v Gloucestershire CC [2012] EWHC 292 (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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