RE: West Newton Appeal14 Oct 2021 12:01
Persi, you refer to "imponderables" which need to be resolved on the planning side, but I cannot detect any. The council's refusal notice is explicit as to the grounds on which permission was refused, and these things can be measured - e.g. visual impact; effect on roads due to volume of HGV traffic. Members of the committee felt that those factors outweighed the strong presumption in national policy, which is supportive of the proposals. That's a difficult argument for the council to run on appeal - or rather it will be difficult for the officers to construct a cogent case especially given they do not share those views themselves.