Site Adjacent To Summerfield, Hatt Common, East Woodhay, Hampshire, RG20 0NH

the erection of a single dwelling house, associated outbuildings, access and landscaping

Authority: Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector: Standfield R

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the appeal site is in a suitable location for residential development having regard to local policies relating to the distribution of development, sustainable transportation and access to services

What decided it

The conflict with the development plan's spatial strategy for locating housing within settlement policy boundaries, combined with the site's unsustainable location lacking safe access to services and sustainable transport, and the application of NPPF paragraph 14 given the recent neighbourhood plan which has met and exceeded the local housing requirement, means the adverse impacts significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits of providing a single dwelling.

The benefits of housing provision and modest economic, social and environmental benefits were outweighed by the conflict with the development plan's spatial strategy, the unsustainable location lacking safe pedestrian access and sustainable transport options, and the application of NPPF paragraph 14 given the recent neighbourhood plan which has met the identified local housing requirement

Framework references: 11, 14

Plan policies cited: Policy SS1, Policy SS6, Policy CN9, Policy HO2

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