®Planning appeal decision
Former Highway House, Norreys Drive, Maidenhead, SL6 4FL
construction of a care home with associated works including car parking, landscaping and provision of amenity space
- Authority
- Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
- Appeal type
- Planning
- Procedure
- Written
- Development
- community-institutional
- Postcode
- SL6 4FL
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the proposal would provide suitable living conditions for future occupiers, with particular regard to the site's location, air quality, pedestrian safety, the layout of accommodation and outdoor amenity space
- whether the proposal makes an effective use of land
What decided it
The Council's acceptance of the appellant's marketing evidence justifying loss of employment land removed the primary objection to the site's location, allowing the Inspector to assess the proposal on its merits as meeting identified care needs whilst making effective use of brownfield land.
The positive contribution to meeting identified care needs and employment generation, combined with satisfactory living conditions and effective use of brownfield land, outweighed the Council's concerns about the site location and housing land supply, with no conflict with the development plan as a whole.
Framework references: 11, 58, 124, 125, 198
Plan policies cited: Policy ED2, Policy EP2, Policy QP3, Policy IF2
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.