®Planning appeal decision
301 Rayleigh Road , Benfleet, SS7 3XA
9 dwellings and new estate road
- Authority
- Castle Point Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Carpenter C
- Postcode
- SS7 3XA
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- the effect of the proposal on the integrity of protected European sites
- whether the appeal site is grey belt land and whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt, having regard to the Framework and any relevant development plan policies
- the effect of the proposal on biodiversity
- whether the dwelling type proposed represents an acceptable response to local housing need
What decided it
The Council's inability to demonstrate a five-year supply of deliverable housing sites, combined with the site's qualification as grey belt land where all statutory tests are met, meant that the Framework's policies on housing delivery and grey belt development outweighed the conflict with the local plan policy on dwelling mix.
The benefits of housing delivery to meet demonstrable unmet need, combined with the site's status as grey belt land satisfying all statutory tests and the absence of significant harm to protected sites or biodiversity, outweighed the conflict with Policy H10 on dwelling type mix.
Framework references: 49, 58, 110, 115, 143, 155
Plan policies cited: Policy H10 of the Castle Point Local Plan 1998
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.