®Planning appeal decision
Land North East of Grove Lane , Lydney, Gloucestershire
outline application for residential development for up to 80 dwellings, including 50% affordable housing, and all associated works, with all matters reserved for future determination except for access (excluding internal roads)
- Authority
- Forest of Dean District Council
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Nicholls H
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the development complies with the development plan in respect of its scale, nature and location
- whether the development would be sustainably located in terms of access to facilities and services and reducing the need to travel
- whether the development would be safe and avoid the increased risk of flooding elsewhere
What decided it
The severe housing land supply shortfall and the substantial benefits of housing and affordable housing delivery outweighed the identified but modest or lower-end harms under the tilted balance at paragraph 11(d) of the Framework.
The substantial weight attributable to housing delivery and 50% affordable housing, together with modest/limited weight benefits (self-build, economic benefits, biodiversity enhancement, sustainable travel infrastructure), outweighed the modest weight harms (BMV land loss, landscape/character harm, flood risk sequential test conflict) and the lower-end less-than-substantial heritage harm, such that the adverse impacts did not significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits.
Framework references: 89, 215, 58, 11
Plan policies cited: Policy CSP.5, Policy CSP.4, Policy CSP.1, Policy CSP.2, Policy ENV1, Policy AP1, Policy AP4
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.