®Planning appeal decision
Land off Newgatestreet Road and Hammondstreet Road, Laurel Park, Broxbourne, EN7 6PH
a hybrid planning application for: (1) Full planning permission for demolition of existing buildings. (2) Full planning permission for the erection of a special education needs establishment (use class F1) including scale, access, landscaping and associated infrastructure. (3) Outline planning permission for up to 90 homes (use class C3) with all matters reserved except for access
- Authority
- Broxbourne
- Appeal type
- major · Planning
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- residential
- Postcode
- EN7 6PH
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether or not the site is suitable for the development proposed having regard to whether or not the occupants and users of the site would have a genuine choice of sustainable transport modes
- whether or not the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt, having regard to the National Planning Policy Framework and Policy GB1 of the Broxbourne Local Plan 2018-2033 (June 2020)
What decided it
The overwhelming and cumulative benefits of housing delivery, affordable housing and the SEN school, engaged via the paragraph 11(d) presumption because of the Council's 2.13-year housing land supply and the SEN place shortfall, decisively outweighed the very limited harm identified.
the very substantial benefits of housing supply, 50% affordable housing, the SEN school and economic benefits were found to weigh overwhelmingly in favour of the scheme, against only a localised, minor adverse effect on character, so the adverse impacts did not significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits
Framework references: 11, 110, 115, 155, 156
Plan policies cited: Policy TM1, Policy TM2, Policy GB1, Policy DS1, Policy PO1
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.