®Planning appeal decision
Land South of Banbury Road, Ettington, Warwickshire, CV37 7SY
Planning appeal 3369800 at Land South of Banbury Road, Ettington, Warwickshire, CV37 7SY (Stratford-on-Avon District Council) was allowed on 9 December 2025 by Inspector Billings C, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the proposal accords with the housing development strategy for the area.
for the development of 8 homes and the phased development of 13 custom and self-build homes, the formation of new vehicular access from Banbury Road, and the laying out of public open space
- Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon District Council
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Billings C
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the proposal accords with the housing development strategy for the area
- whether the proposed development would provide appropriate infrastructure
What decided it
The engagement of paragraph 11(d) of the NPPF due to the Council's inability to demonstrate a 5-year housing land supply, combined with the significant contribution the proposal would make to meeting housing and self-build housing demand, outweighed the conflict with the development plan.
The conflict with the development plan was outweighed by the significant benefits of delivering 21 dwellings (including 13 self-build and custom-build plots) to address the district's housing land supply shortfall (2.74 years) and meet statutory self-build housing demand, together with modest social, economic and environmental benefits, against minor negative weight for loss of best and most versatile agricultural land and no material harm to other considerations.
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy H2 of the Ettington and Fulready Neighbourhood Development PlanPolicy CS.16 of the Stratford-on-Avon District Core StrategyPolicy CS.15 of the Stratford-on-Avon District Core StrategyPolicy AS.10 of the Stratford-on-Avon District Core StrategyPolicy H1 of the Ettington and Fulready Neighbourhood Development PlanPolicy H3 of the Ettington and Fulready Neighbourhood Development PlanPolicy CS.18 of the Stratford-on-Avon District Core StrategyPolicy CS.25 of the Stratford-on-Avon District Core StrategyPolicy CS.26 of the Stratford-on-Avon District Core StrategyPolicy CS.27 of the Stratford-on-Avon District Core StrategyPolicy SCB.3 of the emerging Site Allocations Plan
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 11Paragraph 58
How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.
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