®Planning appeal decision
Land adjacent Hedsordene, Lower Road, Cookham, Maidenhead, SL6 9HW
for the construction of 4 no. detached houses with car ports, parking, landscaping and improvements to the access onto Lower Road
- Authority
- Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Ellis G
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The effect of the development on highway safety
- The effect of the development on surface water flood risk
- The effect of the development on Biodiversity Net Gain
- Whether the Planning Obligation secures financial contributions, where deemed necessary, for biodiversity offsetting and towards the Council's Carbon Offset Fund
What decided it
The development fails to accord with the development plan on all main issues, with highway safety and flood risk being matters where the Framework advises development should be refused, and these harms are not outweighed by the housing benefits.
The benefits of housing delivery and efficient use of land in a sustainable location were outweighed by the identified harm to highway safety, flood risk, and biodiversity, and the conflict with the development plan taken as a whole.
Framework references: 11, 70, 115, 168, 180
Plan policies cited: BLP Policy QP3, BLP Policy IF2, BLP Policy NR1, BLP Policy NR2, BLP Policy SP2
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.