®Planning appeal decision
Land rear of 172-174 Upper Grosvenor Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN1 2EQ
erection of a new build residential dwelling and associated landscaping, car parking, refuse and cycle storage
- Authority
- Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Knight A
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The effect of the proposed development on the character and appearance of the area
What decided it
The significant harm to the character and appearance of the area caused by the dwelling's visual prominence and the introduction of domestic parking use to the green corridor outweighs the modest benefits of delivering one additional dwelling in a location with insufficient five-year housing land supply.
The significant harm to character and appearance, weighted heavily in accordance with Framework requirements for sympathetic development, outweighs the modest benefits of housing delivery and effective land use, such that the adverse impacts significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits when assessed against Framework policies taken as a whole.
Framework references: 11
Plan policies cited: Policy EN1 of the Tunbridge Wells Borough Local Plan 2006, Policy CP4 of the Tunbridge Wells Borough Core Strategy 2010, Policy CP9 of the Tunbridge Wells Borough Core Strategy 2010
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.