®Planning appeal decision
Land South Of Bourton Road, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, MK18 7DR
outline application (all matters reserved apart from access) for residential development (including affordable dwellings), pre-school/nursery (E/F1), SuDS attenuation, public open space including children’s play area, access arrangements off Bourton Road and associated landscaping, infrastructure and ancillary development
- Authority
- Buckinghamshire Council - Aylesbury Area *
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Raygen Z
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposed location for the development would be acceptable having regard to local and national policy
- The effect of the proposal on the character and appearance of the area
- The effect of the proposal on heritage assets
What decided it
The substantial and worsening shortfall in five year housing land supply, which rendered the development plan policies out of date and triggered a tilted balance strongly favouring the housing benefits over the identified harms.
The very substantial benefits of housing delivery, affordable housing, the pre-school/nursery, biodiversity net gain and infrastructure obligations outweighed the moderate adverse harm to character and appearance, the less than substantial heritage harm, and the conflict with the development plan as a whole.
Framework references: 14, 57, 58, 70, 11
Plan policies cited: Policy S2, Policy S3, Policy D3, Policy S8, Policy S1, Policy HP1, Policy NE4, Policy NE7, Policy BE2, Policy DH4
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.