®Planning appeal decision
10 Barnard Road, Bowthorpe Employment Area, NORWICH, NR5 9JB
Construction of a Class E food store with associated access, car parking, servicing and landscaping
- Authority
- Norwich City Council
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- retail · Major retail and services
- Inspector
- Coffey L
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the loss of the existing facility is acceptable having regard to local and national policies that seek to protect community uses
- The effect of the proposal on the protected trees
- The fallback position
What decided it
The limited weight properly attributable to the conflict with Policy DM22 (given the fallback position and the unlikelihood that marketing would secure an alternative community user) was outweighed by the significant public benefits of the scheme.
the significant benefits of the scheme (accessibility and sustainable travel improvements, EV charging provision and economic benefits) outweighed the limited conflict with Policy DM22 arising from loss of the community facility, so that the proposal accorded with the development plan as a whole
Framework references: 98, 92, 94
Plan policies cited: Policy DM22, Policy DM18, Policy DM1, Policy DM7, Policy DM16, Policy DM28, Policy DM30
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.