®Planning appeal decision
8 Felstead Road, Benfleet, Essex, SS7 1BJ
Planning appeal 3350152 at 8 Felstead Road, Benfleet, Essex, SS7 1BJ (Castle Point Borough Council) was dismissed on 23 April 2025 by Inspector Shearing C, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the proposal would provide appropriate arrangements for waste and recycling collection.
‘Demolition of the existing mechanics workshop to be replaced with a new dwelling. The plot will be divided to create two separate curtilages. ’
- Authority
- Castle Point Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Shearing C
- Postcode
- SS7 1BJ
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the proposal would provide appropriate arrangements for waste and recycling collection
- the effect of the proposal on designated habitats sites
What decided it
The proposal fails to provide appropriate waste and recycling storage arrangements and cannot be certified to have no adverse effect on the integrity of designated habitats sites, and these failures are not outweighed by the modest housing benefit given the scale of the proposal.
The modest benefits of delivering one new home on a brownfield site with good accessibility were significantly and demonstrably outweighed by the adverse impacts of inadequate waste storage (risk to highway safety and visual clutter) and the unresolved conflict with habitats site protection policies, even applying the tilted balance under paragraph 11d) of the Framework.
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- RDG13 of the Residential Design Guide 2013
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 11Paragraph 139Paragraph 195
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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