®Planning appeal decision
Brockeridge Park, Brockeridge Road, Twyning, GL20 6FD
Planning appeal 6003077 at Brockeridge Park, Brockeridge Road, Twyning, GL20 6FD (Tewkesbury) was allowed on 29 June 2026 by Inspector R Catchpole, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The effect of the proposal on the character and appearance of the area.
the extension of Brockeridge Business Park to provide for up to 33,329 sqm of B8 employment use classes, together with associated landscaping, drainage, infrastructure and highways
- Authority
- Tewkesbury
- Appeal type
- major · Planning
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- employment-industrial
- Inspector
- R Catchpole
- Postcode
- GL20 6FD
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The effect of the proposal on the character and appearance of the area
- Whether the site is appropriate for development, having regard to local and national planning policies that seek to manage the location of new development
What decided it
The significant unmet need for B8 logistics and employment floorspace, which rendered the development plan's employment strategy out of date and triggered the tilted balance, meant the substantial economic benefits outweighed the identified landscape and character harm.
The substantial economic and employment benefits of meeting an unmet need for B8 logistics floorspace, together with moderate BNG benefit, outweighed the moderate landscape/visual harm and conflict with Policies SD6, EMP2, LAN2 and E1, such that adverse impacts did not significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits under paragraph 11(d)(ii).
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy SD6Policy EMP2Policy LAN2Policy E1Policy SP1Policy SP2Policy SD1Policy SA1Policy EMP1Policy EMP4Policy EMP5
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 11Paragraph 34Paragraph 57Paragraph 58Paragraph 86Paragraph 87Paragraph 116Paragraph 187
- Judgments
- Paul Newman Homes v SSHCLG [2021] EWCA Civ 15; Wavendon Properties Ltd v SSHCLG and Milton Keynes Council [2019] EWHC 1524 (Admin)
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.
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