®Planning appeal decision
Land adjacent to 21 Vicarage Road, Steventon, Oxon, OX13 6SL
the removal of existing single storey garage building and construction of three new dwellings on site adjacent to 21 Vicarage Road (site A) with flood improvement works on land adjacent to 15 Vicarage Road (site B)
- Authority
- Vale of White Horse District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Worley E
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the proposed development would represent an acceptable form of development having regard to flood risk
- whether the proposed development would provide suitable living conditions for future occupiers, with particular regard to noise from the railway line
- whether the proposed development would be in a suitable location having regard to the development strategy
- whether the proposed development would provide suitable living conditions for future occupiers of 'House 1' with particular regard to outlook
What decided it
The proposal failed to satisfy the Sequential Test for flood risk as required by the Framework and Core Policy 42, with the actual extent of Flood Zone 2 not satisfactorily demonstrated and no evidence that alternative sites at lower flood risk were unavailable.
Framework references: 11
Plan policies cited: Core Policy 42, Core Policy 3, Core Policy 4, Development Policy 24, Development Policy 25
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.