®Planning appeal decision
Brockeridge Park, Brockeridge Road, Twyning, GL20 6FD
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
- 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unmet need for B8 logistics and employment floorspace, which rendered the development plan's employment strategy out of date and triggered the tilted balance, meant the substantial economic benefits outweighed the identified landscape and character harm.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).
Framework references: 11, 34, 57, 58, 86, 87, 116, 187
Plan policies cited: Policy SD6, Policy EMP2, Policy LAN2, Policy E1, Policy SP1, Policy SP2, Policy SD1, Policy SA1, Policy EMP1, Policy EMP4, Policy EMP5
Judgments cited: Paul Newman Homes v SSHCLG [2021] EWCA Civ 15; Wavendon Properties Ltd v SSHCLG and Milton Keynes Council [2019] EWHC 1524 (Admin)
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.