The development proposed for the erection of up to 98 dwellings with public open space, landscaping and sustainable drainage system and vehicular access point from Colchester Road has been dismissed.
I consider the main issues to be:
•What effect the development would have on the landscape character and appearance of the area.
•What effect it would have on the significance of heritage assets.
•Whether adequate provision would be secured for affordable housing and for necessary infrastructure to support the development.
•What effect the development would have on biodiversity including whether any likely significant effect on the Black water Special Protection Area/RAMSAR site would require that an Appropriate Assessment be made of such impacts before determining the appeal.
•Whether there is a 5-year supply of housing land in Braintree District.
– Whether, having regard to the planning balance and to the provisions of paragraph 11 of the National Planning Policy Framework, if the most important development plan policies for determining the application are out-of-date, or if there is not a 5-year supply of housing land, should the proposal trigger a presumption in favour of this development of market and affordable housing or do any of the listed exceptions to that presumption apply here?
Land Off Colchester Road, Bures Hamlet, Essex