A Planning Inspector has allowed an appeal for 700 homes and awarded full costs to the applicant after concluding a site was "unquestionably a highly sustainable location" with relatively few harms.
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Members of Wealden District Council's planning committee refused an applicaiton last year for 700 homes at Mornings Mill Farm on the outskirts of Eastbourne on highways and transport issues, together with concerns about the location of the site and the eff ects of development drainage.
Alongside the housing, the application proposed 8,600 sqm of employment floorspace, a medical centre, school, community centre, retail space, playing fields, plus children's play space, allotments, internal access roads, cycle and footpath routes and associated landscaping and infrastructure.
The Inspector concluded the local authority's conduct was the "epitome of unreasonable behaviour". The members of the planning committee had originally overturned their offi cer's recommendation for approval, and at the Inquiry they withdrew its objections for the appeal the month before it was due to sit.
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