®Planning appeal decision
Church Road, Crowle, Worcestershire
full planning permission for 30 dwellings (use Class C3, including 12 affordable homes, public open space along with detailed access not Church Road and associated infrastructure including drainage and landscaping without complying with a condition attached to planning permission Ref W/22/02683/FUL dated 22 December 2023
- Authority
- Wychavon District Council
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Stephens K
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- the effect that varying condition 4 would have on the local environment with particular regards to foul drainage and flood risk
What decided it
The statutory undertaker's agreement to the revised foul drainage scheme incorporating on-site treatment works, combined with the Council's significant housing land supply shortfall, made it unreasonable to require the appellant to wait for STW's treatment works improvements.
The benefits of housing delivery to address the significant housing land shortfall outweighed the concerns about foul drainage and flood risk, given that the revised drainage scheme had been agreed by the statutory undertaker and would reduce the risk of surcharging into the Bow Brook.
Framework references: 194, 205
Plan policies cited: SWDP28, SWDP29, SWDP30, SWDP21, SWDP4, SWDP31, SWDP6, SWDP24, SWDP22, SWDP25, SWDP1
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