®Planning appeal decision
1-3 Broadway, Grays, Essex, RM17 6EW
demolition of existing premises and construction new three-storey block to provide a mixed scheme of 2 retail units and 7no. apartments
- Authority
- Thurrock Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Glassar S
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- the effect of the proposed development on highway safety in relation to parking provision and deliveries
- the living conditions of future occupiers
What decided it
The failure to provide satisfactory mitigation for parking impacts on highway safety through an executed legal agreement, combined with inadequate outdoor amenity space for some future occupiers, meant the adverse impacts significantly and demonstrably outweighed the benefits of housing delivery in an area with insufficient supply.
The modest benefits of housing delivery, economic benefits and brownfield reuse were significantly and demonstrably outweighed by the significant harm to highway safety from insufficient parking provision and moderate harm to living conditions from inadequate amenity space for some future occupiers; the presumption in favour of sustainable development did not apply.
Framework references: 11, 116, 135
Plan policies cited: Policy PMD 1, Policy PMD 2, Policy PMD 8, Policy PMD 9
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.