Kingsfold Lodge, Marringdean Road, Billingshurst, RH14 9HE

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

• Whether the site is suitable for new residential development in terms of its purpose and accessibility to local services and facilities, having regard to its location, the land use and the amount of development proposed

What decided it

The location would result in occupiers being reliant on private cars and the appeal failed to demonstrate that safe and suitable access can be achieved for all users, conflicting with the Framework's sustainable transport objectives, which attracted significant weight and outweighed the housing supply benefits even under the tilted balance.

The benefits of contributing one dwelling to the constrained housing supply and limited economic benefits were outweighed by the significant harm from car-dependency and failure to achieve safe and suitable access for all users, such that adverse impacts significantly and demonstrably outweighed benefits when assessed against Framework policies as a whole