®Planning appeal decision
Land Adjacent Starlight, Patricia Drive, Fobbing, SS17 9HR
‘Outline planning permission for construction of dwellings with all matters reserved’
- Authority
- Thurrock Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Wright A
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the appeal site is grey belt land and whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt, having regard to the National Planning Policy Framework and relevant development plan policies
- the effect of the proposal on the openness and purposes of the Green Belt
- whether any harm by reason of inappropriateness, and any other harm, would be clearly outweighed by other considerations, so as to amount to the very special circumstances required to justify the proposal
What decided it
The harm to the Green Belt by reason of inappropriateness, loss of openness and conflict with Green Belt purposes is not clearly outweighed by the housing supply benefit, so very special circumstances do not exist.
The significant weight given to the provision of additional dwellings and limited weight to potential retirement housing do not clearly outweigh the substantial harm to the Green Belt, and the Framework's Green Belt policies provide a strong reason to refuse the development notwithstanding the lack of five-year housing land supply.
Framework references: 11, 154, 155
Plan policies cited: Policy CSSP4, Policy PMD6
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.