Valley View Park, Newnham Road, Blakeney, Gloucestershire, GL15 4DL

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

• Whether the condition is reasonable and necessary having regard to the Council's spatial strategy and accessibility to facilities and services
• Whether the condition is reasonable and necessary having regard to the living conditions of future residents, with respect to internal space, privacy and children's play space
• Whether the condition is reasonable and necessary having regard to the provision of affordable housing
• Whether the condition is reasonable and necessary having regard to highway safety
• Whether the condition is reasonable and necessary to avoid an unacceptable loss of an employment site

What decided it

The adverse impacts of granting permission, particularly the unsustainable location requiring reliance on private vehicles and inadequate living conditions for permanent occupation, significantly and demonstrably outweigh the modest housing benefits when assessed against the Framework taken as a whole.

The modest benefits of housing supply and socio-economic impacts were significantly and demonstrably outweighed by the adverse impacts of directing permanent residential development to an unsustainable rural location with poor accessibility and providing inadequate living conditions, contrary to the Framework's emphasis on design quality and sustainable locations.