Planning Application Details

That the proposed development would be contrary to the housing policies of the adopted Rural Areas Local Plan and the approved South Oxfordshire Local Plan which provide that except on allocated sites residential development will normally be limited to strict infilling within villages (Policies H4 RALP and H4 and H5 SOLP) and that backland development without proper road frontage to a made up road will not normally be permitted because of problems of privacy and access associated with such developments will not normally be permitted (Policies H7 and RALP and H18 SOLP). Having regard to its location and existing narrow single lane access serving both Staddlestones and the application site the proposal would not constitute infilling and would be backland development which would detract from the privacy and residential amenity of occupiers of neighbouring properties and would create difficulty and inconvenience for collection and delivery services. That the proposed development would be contrary to the housing policies of the adopted Rural Areas Local Plan and the approved South Oxfordshire Local Plan which provide that new development will only be permitted if there are no highway objections (Policies H4 RALP and H4 SOLP). The development would result in an unacceptable intensification of use of a substandard access lacking adequate vision and of poor layout to the detriment of highway safety and convenience.