Oaklea Lane, Southampton Road, Alderbury, SP5 3DZ

1. 1.The proposed development is contrary to the Development Plan housing delivery strategy in that it involves a site that is situated in designated countryside, and which is outside of the existing built up parameters of the Large Village of Alderbury. The proposals do not involve infill development and the site does not have adequate access to services or employment opportunities by means other than the private car. The proposals would therefore represent unjustified, unsustainable development that is contrary to the provisions of the National Planning Policy Framework; Wiltshire Core Strategy policies CP1 (Settlement Strategy), CP2 (Delivery Strategy), CP23 (Southern Wiltshire Community Area), CP60 (Sustainable Transport) and CP61.
2. 2.The positioning of these two storey dwellings within an open area of the designated special landscape would negatively impact the Special landscape area particularly when viewed from surrounding footpaths ALDE9 to the South and ALDE11 to the East, as such the proposal is considered to be contrary to policy CP51 of the Wiltshire Core strategy as well as saved policy C6 of the Salisbury District local plan.
3. 3.Oaklea Lane is an unadopted highway which is considered to be inadequate both in its width and its ability to provide an acceptable standard of vision splays where it meets Southampton road. The increased use of this Lane for two more dwellings and their associated vehicle movements, would, it is considered, be to the detriment of highway safety and as such is contrary to policies CP57 (ix) and CP61(ii) of the Wiltshire Core strategy.
4. 4.The proposal by reason of the positioning of the first floor rear windows overlooking the rear gardens of Woodford, Montrai and Sumach, Southampton Road would be an intrusive and unneighbourly form of development giving rise to an unacceptable loss of amenity to occupiers of those properties contrary to policy CP57 (vii) of the Wiltshire Core strategy.
5. 5.The application contains insufficient information with regard to the permeable paving within the nutrient budget submitted to assess the effect on the River Avon SAC. There are also records of Great Crested Newts being present at the site and insufficient information was contained within the application of which waterbodies had been tested for Newts for the local authority to confirm no negative effect on that species. Furthermore there is no provision made within the application for the protection of the New Forest within the zone of influence for which the application sits. Insufficient information is provided to confirm that the site does not contain other neutral grassland for the purposes of calculating BNG and similarly there is also insufficient information provided in the BNG metric as to why ditches within and close to the site have been excluded from the metric calculations. Given this deficit of information the local authority cannot conclude that the proposal will not result in significant adverse effects on protected habitats or species and as such the proposal is considered to be contrary to policy CP50 of the Wiltshire Core strategy.

From the council's decision notice.

Postcode

SP5 3DZ

Application type

Full planning permission

Scale / size

Small

Parish

Alderbury CP

Date validated

25 September 2025

Consultation expiry

4 November 2025

Consultation end

4 November 2025

Target decision date

20 November 2025

Statutory period

56 days

Documents

39