The appeal is dismissed and outline planning is refused for the erection of up to 800 dwellings including uses in Class C3; up to 0.5ha of Class B employment floorspace within Use Class B1a office and B1c light industry; up to 1,400 sq m of retail uses (Class A1/A2/A4/A5); one primary school incorporating early years provision (Class D1); up to 640 sq m of health centre use (Class D1); up to 600 sq m of community buildings (Class D1); up to 150 sq m changing rooms (Class D2); provision of interchange facilities including bus stop, taxi waiting area and drop-off area; open spaces and landscaping (including play areas, playing fields, wildlife habitat areas and mitigation measures, nature park, allotments, reinstated hedgerows, formal/informal open space, ancillary maintenance sheds); access roads including access points to B1051 Henham Road and Old Mead Road, a construction access and haul route from B1051 Henham Road, a waste water treatment works access from Bedwell Road, and provision of link road at Elsenham Cross between the B1051 Henham Road and Hall Road with associated street lighting and street furniture; pedestrian, cycle, vehicle and bus routes including streets, squares, lanes and footpaths along with bus stops with associated street lighting and street furniture; provision and/or upgrade/diversion of services including water, sewerage, telecommunications, electricity and gas and related service media, and apparatus including pumping stations, substations and pressure regulators; on-plot renewable energy measures including photo-voltaics, solar heating and ground source heat pumps; drainage works including a waste water treatment works, sustainable urban drainage systems and ground and surface water attenuation features; demolition of all existing buildings; associated ground works; and boundary treatments including construction hoardings on land north east of Elsenham, Essex, in accordance with application ref: UTT/13/0808/OP, dated 27 March 2013. The appeal is made by Fairfield (Elsenham) Ltd against Uttlesford District Council.
Elsenham, Essex