®Planning appeal decision
Land north of Hemingfield Road, Hemingfield, Barnsley, S73 0PW
‘Outline planning application for demolition of existing structures and erection of residential dwellings with associated infrastructure and open space. All matters reserved apart from access into the site’
- Authority
- Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Davies B
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Housing delivery and land supply
- Safeguarded land
- Comprehensive delivery of neighbouring land
- Highway safety
- Sustainability of the location of the site
- Agricultural land
- Landscape
- Ecology and biodiversity
- Green space
What decided it
The severe, unremedied shortfall in the Council's five-year housing land supply, which reduced the weight given to conflict with the safeguarded land policy and attracted very substantial weight in favour of the housing benefits.
The considerable benefits from market and affordable housing delivery, together with minor benefits from transport, green infrastructure, biodiversity net gain and other matters, outweighed the reduced-weight conflict with Policy GB6 and the small weight of landscape harm under Policy LC1.
Framework references: 79, 115, 110, 187, 57, 135, 96
Plan policies cited: Policy H1, Policy H2, Policy H7, Policy GB6, Policy GD1, Policy T4, Policy T3, Policy LC1, Policy BIO10, Policy GS1, Policy GI1
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.