Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Dismissed21 April 20266001110

Land Adjoining The Causeway, Church Causeway, Church Langton, Market Harborough, LE16 7SU

Planning appeal 6001110 at Land Adjoining The Causeway, Church Causeway, Church Langton, Market Harborough, LE16 7SU (Harborough District Council) was dismissed on 21 April 2026 by Inspector Thompson P, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the proposal would be consistent with development plan policies relating to housing in rural areas.

Outline application accounting for a) the addition of 21 dwellings constituting 12 Open Market Housing Units, 5 Discounted Market Sale (Annex 2 qualifying) Units, and 4 serviced plots for self-build and custom housebuilding, b) hedge removal to facilitate creation of the access and c) demolition of stable block, with all matters reserved except for access from Church Causeway

Authority
Harborough District Council
Appeal type
major · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Hearing
Development
residential · Major dwellings
Inspector
Thompson P
Postcode
LE16 7SU

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • whether the proposal would be consistent with development plan policies relating to housing in rural areas
  • the effect of the proposal on the character and appearance of the site and its surroundings, including regarding the area of separation between Church Langton and East Langton

What decided it

Because the Area of Separation policy in the up-to-date East Langton Neighbourhood Plan (which allocates sites to meet its housing requirement) was engaged, the paragraph 14 test applied and the Inspector found the adverse impacts of the conflict with that plan significantly and demonstrably outweighed the scheme's benefits.

Substantial and significant weight afforded to housing, self-build, affordable housing and other benefits was significantly and demonstrably outweighed by the substantial weight given to conflict with development plan housing-location policies and the harmful effect on character, appearance and the Area of Separation, resulting in dismissal.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
HLP Policy SS1HLP Policy H1HLP Policy GD1HLP Policy GD2HLP Policy GD4HLP Policy GD8HLP Policy H5HLP Policy HC1ELNP Policy H2ELNP Policy ENV6ELNP Policy ENV1ELNP Policy DBE1
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 11Paragraph 14Paragraph 66Paragraph 84Paragraph 110Paragraph 129Paragraph 135Paragraph 139

How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.

See how each was applied

The decision letter

Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

15 other decided appeals within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision
An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter
Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.
Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app
Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.
Start your free trial

More decisions in Harborough

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2026

  1. Dismissed13 October 20266011211
    Land East of Kilworth Road, Walton, LE17 6JG
  2. Dismissed6 October 20266008843
    The Grange, Arnesby Road, Fleckney, LE8 8AQ
  3. Dismissed17 September 20266009409
    Godolphin House Stables, Broughton Lane, Leire, LE17 5ER
  4. Dismissed27 July 20266003615
    Land Adjacent to the Car Park of Archway House on Harborough Road, Market Harborough, LE16 9SZ
  5. Dismissed29 June 20266003723
    Land Adjacent 17 St Margarets Drive, Leire, LE17 5HW

The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.

In the app this decision sits on the map beside every appeal around it, with its letter to read and the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out.