It was an absolute pleasure to be part of this proposal in Brockworth for a three-storey, 66-bed care home facility, along with associated ancillary works. Planning was approved in February of this year.
The site comprised a single dwelling in ample grounds, surrounded by playing fields and residential gardens with established border treatments.
Key planning considerations included:
Although outside the settlement boundary for Brockworth, the development site benefitted from being adjacent to a strategic allocation, outlined in the Gloucester, Cheltenham and Tewkesbury Joint Core Strategy 2011-2031. Furthermore, at the time of submission, the Council could not demonstrate a five-year housing land supply. The proposal would therefore help to address the identified need for registered care beds in the locality, and the quantum proposed would make a useful addition to the Councilโs housing supply figures.
Regarding the increase in built form compared to the existing, whilst this undoubtedly represented a key planning issue, it was successfully evidenced that the scheme could be delivered without unacceptable wider landscape and visual impacts, particularly given the significant additional residential development taking place adjacent to the site. As a result, we successfully justified that the minor visual harm created by the new built form would be comprehensively outweighed by the substantial benefits that would result from the development.
Given this, a positive pre-application response was received, which acknowledged that the principle of development was acceptable, along with the proposed quantum of development which initially sought an 82-bed care home with associated amenity space, parking provision and a revised access point.
On this basis, working effectively across a multi-disciplinary project team, a full planning application was submitted. However, statutory consultee responses received during the determination period raised several concerns. We liaised effectively with the case officer and wider project team, presenting a series of solutions and mitigation measures to assuage concerns and present a scheme which responded positively to statutory responses and ensured a suitable quantum of care provision, adhering to the vision of our client.
These included:
The application was decided at Planning Committee, and we are delighted that following our involvement, all concerns raised by the statutory consultees were successfully resolved and that planning was approved in a timely manner.
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