®Planning appeal decision
Land West of Spratts Farm, Queenborough Road, Southminster, CM0 7AD
Outline planning application for the demolition of number 46 Queenborough Road and the erection of up to 110 dwellings (including affordable housing), with public open space, structural planting, landscaping, sustainable drainage system (SuDS) and vehicular access point. All matters to be reserved, except for means of access
- Authority
- Maldon
- Appeal type
- major · Planning
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- residential
- Postcode
- CM0 7AD
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposed development would result in unacceptable landscape and visual impacts or harm to the character and appearance of the area
- Whether it would be likely to result in unacceptable noise impacts to the occupiers of No 48 Queenborough Road
- The planning balance of benefits against any harms, when assessed against Policy S5 (Principle of development outside settlements) of the new revised NPPF
What decided it
The absence of a five-year housing land supply engaged NPPF Policy S5, and the substantial benefits of market and affordable housing delivery outweighed the limited landscape, heritage and other harms identified.
The substantial weight given to market and affordable housing delivery, together with moderate/limited weight given to economic, open space, biodiversity and transport benefits, outweighed the limited landscape harm, less-than-substantial heritage harm and conflict with out-of-date spatial strategy policies, tipping the balance in favour of allowing the appeal.
Framework references: 187, 215, 119, 11
Plan policies cited: Policy S1, Policy S2, Policy S8, Policy D1, Policy D2, Policy D3, Policy D5, Policy H2, Policy H4, Policy N2, Policy T2
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.