®Planning appeal decision
Land East Of Kineton Road, Wellesbourne, CV35 9LH
Outline Planning application with all matters reserved except access, for up to 300 dwellings and associated green space and biodiversity enhancements
- Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon District Council
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Dawe A
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposed development would comply with the Council's spatial strategy
- The effect of the proposed development on local surface water drainage and flood risk
- Other related planning matters including any benefits of the proposed development to be weighed in the planning balance
What decided it
The severe shortfall in the Council's five-year housing land supply (2.21 years) meant the substantial benefits of housing delivery outweighed the identified but limited and less-than-substantial harms.
The substantial benefits of market and affordable housing delivery, significant biodiversity net gain, and moderate/limited other benefits outweighed the less-than-substantial heritage harm, limited BMVAL loss and non-accordance with spatial strategy policy, such that the adverse impacts of granting permission would not significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits when assessed against the Framework as a whole.
Framework references: 175, 216, 212, 213, 215, 187, 11, 58
Plan policies cited: Policy CS.15, Policy CS.16, Policy WW7, Policy CS.4, Policy WW12, Policy CS.8, Policy CS.18, Policy CS.19, Policy WW8, Policy CS.25A, Policy CS.27, Policy CS.9 B(4), Policy CS.9 B(6), Policy CS.26, Policy CS.26 B(4), Policy CS.25A&B
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.