®Planning appeal decision
Land At Snows Ride, Windlesham, Surrey, GU20 6LA
a mixed residential led development comprising up to 154 integrated retirement community units (Use Class C2) and 33 dwellings (Use Class C3) together with a general practice surgery, the creation of suitable alternative natural greenspace, landscaping, car parking, access, maintenance workshop, refuse storage and communal facilities
- Authority
- Surrey Heath Borough Council
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- residential · Other Major Developments
- Inspector
- Davies G
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The effect on the purposes and openness of the Green Belt
- The effect on the character and appearance of the area
- Whether the harm by reason of inappropriateness and any harm arising from the two issues above would be clearly outweighed by other considerations so as to amount to the very special circumstances necessary to justify development in the Green Belt
What decided it
The combination of significant benefits from housing land supply, specialist elderly housing, and the offer of land for a GP surgery clearly outweighed the Green Belt and character/appearance harm, amounting to very special circumstances.
The other considerations (notably housing land supply, specialist elderly housing and the GP surgery site) clearly outweighed the substantial harm to the Green Belt by reason of inappropriateness and openness, and the limited harm to character and appearance, amounting to very special circumstances that justified allowing the appeal.
Framework references: 11, 57, 85, 143, 153, 155, 156
Plan policies cited: Policy DM9, Policy CP5, Policy CP6, Policy WNP2.1, Policy DH1
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.