®Planning appeal decision
Land south of Abingdon Road, Burcot, OX14 3DQ
the construction of two to four dwellings
- Authority
- South Oxfordshire District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Kay D
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the site is suitable for residential development having regard to its location, land use and amount of development proposed
- Whether the appeal site is grey belt and whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the relevant development plan policies and the National Planning Policy Framework, including the effect on openness and purposes of the Green Belt
- Whether the location is suitable having regard to the spatial strategy in the development plan
What decided it
The Council's inability to demonstrate a 5-year housing land supply, combined with the site's status as grey belt land meeting all criteria of paragraph 155 of the Framework, means the presumption in favour of sustainable development applies and the benefits of housing delivery outweigh the conflict with the development plan.
The benefits of providing two to four dwellings in a sustainable location, supporting housing supply, providing local economic benefit and CIL contributions, significantly outweigh the harm from conflict with the spatial strategy in the development plan, which is given reduced weight due to the Council's lack of 5-year housing land supply
Framework references: 11, 110, 115, 143, 154, 155
Plan policies cited: Policy STRAT1, Policy STRAT6, Policy H1, Policy H8, Policy H16
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.