Paddock View, Springfield Lane, Broadway, Worcestershire, WR12 7BT

a new self-build dwelling and detached garage

Authority: Wychavon District Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector: Conde L

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

the effect of the proposal on the character and appearance of the area
whether the appeal site is an appropriate location for residential development having regard to the Council's local development strategy

What decided it

The existence of an extant fallback position for a dwelling at the site, combined with the Council's inability to demonstrate a five-year housing land supply, outweighed the conflict with the development plan's spatial strategy.

The conflict with Policy SWDP2 and the development plan was outweighed by the fallback position, the site's good accessibility to facilities and services by sustainable means, and the Council's severe housing shortfall and inability to demonstrate a five-year housing land supply.

Plan policies cited: Policy BE.1 of the Broadway Neighbourhood Plan (made 2022), Policy SWDP21 of the South Worcestershire Development Plan (adopted 2016), Policy SWDP 2 of the SWDP, Policy SWDP4 of the SWDP, Policy HD.1 of the Neighbourhood Plan, Policy SWDP5 of the SWDP

Judgments cited: Uttlesford DC v SSE & White [1992] JPL 171

Read the decision letter on the Inspectorate’s site

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.

What an account adds

Draw a red line around your site and the appraisal follows.

Heritage. Listed buildings by grade and distance, conservation areas, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, heritage at risk.
Landscape and environment. Green belt, national parks and national landscapes, SSSIs, ancient woodland, SPA, SAC and Ramsar sites, nutrient catchments.
Flooding. Flood zones 2 and 3, surface water, and both again with climate change.
Transport. The 800 metre station catchment and service frequency, bus stops with their weekday frequency, the cycle network, and the Framework’s transport tests measured for the site.

Then the development plan position, the housing land supply as an Inspector last accepted it, and every appeal decided around the site with its letter.

Every English appeal since 2016, with the letter behind it wherever the Inspectorate published one. Searched by meaning as well as by words, with the key case law counted live across the letters.

Casework that chases the deadlines. Applications, appeals and conditions with their statutory dates.

The judgement stays yours. The tool gathers the material and dates it.