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Planning permission granted27 January 20253353103

22A Northfield Road, Soham, Ely, CB7 5UF

Planning appeal 3353103 at 22A Northfield Road, Soham, Ely, CB7 5UF (East Cambridgeshire District Council) was allowed on 27 January 2025 by Inspector Douglas L, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the Condition should be discharged without being substituted for another condition and whether planning permission should be granted for the dwelling without complying with the Condition, with particular regard to the Council's locational strategy for dwellings.

the failure to comply with condition 10 imposed on planning permission ref E/91/0367/O granted on 4 November 1992

Authority
East Cambridgeshire District Council
Appeal type
enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure
Hearing
Development
residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector
Douglas L
Postcode
CB7 5UF

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether the Condition should be discharged without being substituted for another condition and whether planning permission should be granted for the dwelling without complying with the Condition, with particular regard to the Council's locational strategy for dwellings.

What decided it

The site-specific wording of the occupancy Condition was found unreasonably narrow, but a substituted generic rural worker occupancy condition would achieve the same planning aims while according with the development plan.

Discharging the Condition outright without any substitute would conflict with the development plan, but substituting a generic rural worker occupancy condition made the dwelling acceptable and compliant with the development plan, tipping the balance in favour of allowing both appeals.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy GROWTH 2Policy HOU 5
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 57

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