®Planning appeal decision
8 Felstead Road, Benfleet, Essex, SS7 1BJ
‘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
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.
Framework references: 11, 139, 195
Plan policies cited: RDG13 of the Residential Design Guide 2013
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.