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Allowed9 January 20253348743

Land at Berrow Green Road, Martley, WR6 6PE

Planning appeal 3348743 at Land at Berrow Green Road, Martley, WR6 6PE (Malvern Hills District Council) was allowed on 9 January 2025 by Inspector Hanna P, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the proposal would be in a suitable location for housing with regard to local and national policies for housing.

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Authority
Malvern Hills District Council
Appeal type
major · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Inquiry
Development
residential · Major dwellings
Inspector
Hanna P

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • whether the proposal would be in a suitable location for housing with regard to local and national policies for housing
  • the effect of the proposal on the character and appearance of the site and surrounding area and the setting of the Grade II listed building Longstone Cottage

What decided it

The substantial and significant weight given to the delivery of affordable and market housing, in the context of a significant housing land supply shortfall, outweighed the less than substantial heritage harm and other identified harms under the tilted balance.

the public benefits, particularly affordable and market housing delivery together with economic benefits and biodiversity net gain, decisively outweighed the less than substantial heritage harm and the significant landscape/character harm, such that the adverse impacts did not significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits under the paragraph 11(d) tilted balance

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
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National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 11Paragraph 57Paragraph 58Paragraph 78Paragraph 215Paragraph 216
Judgments
Suffolk Coastal DC v Hopkins Homes Ltd & SSCLG and Richborough Estates Partnership LLP & SSCLG v Cheshire East BC [2017] UKSC 37

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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