®Planning appeal decision
Flyboat Farm, Pitminster Road, Pitminster, Taunton, Somerset, TA3 7AS
for Outline Consent for Access and Scale with all other matters reserved for residential development of up to 2 dwellings
- Authority
- Somerset Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Webber F
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the proposed development would have an effect on the rural character of a National Landscape
- whether the site is in a suitable location having particular regard to the spatial strategy in the development plan and the accessibility of services and facilities
- whether the proposal would be likely to have a significant effect on the integrity of the Somerset Levels and Moors SPA / Ramsar site
What decided it
The Council's inability to demonstrate a five-year supply of deliverable housing land, combined with the limited harm identified on all three main issues and the support for self-build housing in the Framework, meant that the benefits of the proposal outweighed the conflicts with the development plan under the tilted balance test.
The limited harm to the National Landscape (mitigated through conditions), the limited harm to sustainable transport promotion from two self-build dwellings, and the economic and social benefits of rural housing delivery outweighed the conflicts with Policies SP1, CP1a and DM2 of the development plan, applying the tilted balance under paragraph 11(d) of the Framework due to the Council's inability to demonstrate a five-year housing land supply.
Framework references: 11, 73, 83, 110, 189
Plan policies cited: Policy PD2 of the Blackdown Hills AONB Management Plan, Policy DM1d of the Taunton Dean Core Strategy 2012, Policy CP8 of the Taunton Dean Core Strategy 2012, Policy SP1 of the Taunton Dean Core Strategy 2012, Policy CP1 of the Taunton Dean Core Strategy 2012, Policy CP6 of the Taunton Dean Core Strategy 2012, Policy DM2 of the Taunton Dean Core Strategy 2012, Policy A5 of the Taunton Site Allocations and Development Management Plan 2016, Policy EN2 of the Taunton Dean Core Strategy 2012, Policy SB1 of the Taunton Site Allocations and Development Management Plan 2016
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.