Planning permission obtained on appeal for a headquarters building and new homes.
Client
CABI International
Site details and constraints:
This is a rural location in an area of natural beauty and heritage assets.
Our role and services
The planning team at Ridge provided expert witness evidence at a Public Inquiry.
Ridge was able to demonstrate that although the scheme would cause limited harm to the AONB, in this case exceptional circumstances could be demonstrated which outweighed this harm. Furthermore, Ridge demonstrated that the proposed scheme would cause no loss of significance to the setting of the heritage asset.
A viability report was submitted by Ridge which justified a reduction in the affordable housing provision.
Ridge was able to provide robust evidence confirming that the scheme met the environmental, social and economic role thus meet the three dimensions of sustainable development.
