Land off The Parklands, Cockshutt, Ellesmere, SY12 0LN

Planning appeal 3352860 at Land off The Parklands, Cockshutt, Ellesmere, SY12 0LN (Shropshire County Council) was allowed on 22 July 2025 by Inspector Worley E, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the development would be in a suitable location, with particular regard to the development strategy.

‘Outline application for the erection of six dwellings’

Authority: Shropshire County Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector: Worley E
Postcode: SY12 0LN

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

whether the development would be in a suitable location, with particular regard to the development strategy
whether the proposal would make adequate provision for affordable housing
the effect on the European site

What decided it

The Council's inability to demonstrate an adequate five-year housing land supply engaged the presumption in favour of sustainable development under NPPF paragraph 11, which outweighed the technical conflict with the development plan.

the adverse impacts in terms of the technical conflict with the development plan would not significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits in terms of housing supply and accessibility to services and facilities, when assessed against the policies in the Framework taken as a whole, and the presumption in favour of sustainable development applied

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: Policy CS1Policy CS4Policy CS5Policy S8.2(i)Policy MD7aPolicy MD1Policy MD3Policy CS6Policy MD12Policy CS17Policy CS9Policy CS11
National Planning Policy Framework: Paragraph 11

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.

See how each was applied

The decision letter

Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

2 other decided appeals within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision

An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter — Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.

Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app — Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.

Start your free trial

More decisions in Shropshire

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2025

Allowed11 August 20266006953
Land West of Woodhill Road, Highley, WV16 6HT
Dismissed22 April 20266001790
Montgomery Waters, Shrewsbury Road, Church Stretton, Shropshire, SY6 6HD
Allowed13 April 20266001947
3 Loxdale, Shrewsbury, SY3 6AE
Allowed30 March 20266003194
Hengoed Fields, Upper Hengoed, Oswestry, Shropshire, SY10 7EY
Allowed11 March 20263375898
Land Adjacent to Bank House , Hamperley, Church Stretton, Shropshire, SY6 6PT

The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.