®Planning appeal decision
Land adjoining Bell Plantation, Watling Street, Towcester, NN12 8EU
development of up to 31,800 sq m (GEA) of Employment Buildings (Use Classes E(g)(iii), B2 and/or B8), access, landscaping and associated development and drainage infrastructure (Outline, all matters reserved except for the principal means of access to the site from the A5)
- Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- employment-industrial · Major general industry/storage/warehousing
- Inspector
- Smith A
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The effect upon the character and appearance of the area, having particular regard to the siting of the proposed tallest buildings
- The effect upon the Strategic Road Network (SRN), having particular regard to whether or not there would be a severe residual cumulative impact
What decided it
The Inspector concluded that neither of the Council's original reasons for refusal - character/appearance harm from building siting, nor a severe residual cumulative impact on the Strategic Road Network - was substantiated by the evidence.
Having found no harm to character and appearance and no severe residual cumulative highway impact, and with the scheme found to accord with the development plan as a whole, no other material considerations weighed against granting permission.
Plan policies cited: Policy AL1, Policy AL2, Policy AL3, Policy S10, Policy SS2, Policy EMP1, Policy S11
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.