Planning applications

Front Street Churchill planning inquiry

A public inquiry against the non-determination of planning application 21/P/2049/OUT for the development of Front Street, Churchill will open on Tuesday 7 June 2022. Documents relating to the inquiry are available to view on this page.

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Day four

YouTube livestream: Monday 13 June - morning

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YouTube livestream: Tuesday 14 June - morning

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Day six

YouTube livestream: Wednesday 15 June - morning

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Day seven

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Core document library

core documents list - Front Street, Churchill [237.17 KB]

Section A - development plan documents and relevant documents

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A1 - North Somerset Core Strategy - January 2017 [8.07 MB]

A2 - North Somerset sites and policies plan part one – development management policies (adopted 2016) [1.76 MB]

A3 - North Somerset sites and policies plan part two – site allocations plan (adopted 2018) [5.17 MB]

A4 - Core Strategy inspector’s final report on re-examination of policy CS13 [333.13 KB]

A5 - Core Strategy inspector’s final report on re-examination of remitted policies [452.56 KB]

A6 - Sites and Policies Plan part one – development management policies inspector’s final report [538.33 KB]

A7 - Sites and Policies Plan part two – site allocations plan inspector’s final report [499.38 KB]

A8 - letter from inspector examining Site Allocations Plan (dated 26 June 2017) [148.55 KB]

Section B - supplementary planning documents

B1 - parking standards SPD (adopted Nov 2021) [985 KB]

B2 - landscape character assessment (adopted Sept 2018) [43.78 MB]

B3 - biodiversity and trees SPD (adopted 2015) [2.11 MB]

B4 - creating sustainable buildings and places (adopted 2021) [9.46 MB]

B5 - travel plans SPD (adopted 2010) [1.52 MB]

B6 - affordable housing SPD (adopted 2013) [998.07 KB]

B7 - Developer contributions SPD (adopted 2016) [933.69 KB]

B8 - North Somerset and Mendip bats SAC guidance on development (adopted 2018) [9.56 MB]

B9 - accessible housing needs assessment SPD (adopted 2018) [1.03 MB]

Section C - planning application documents

C1 - application form [576.74 KB]

C2 - design and access statement [9.63 MB]

C3 - arboricultural survey report [7.04 MB]

C4 - transport assessment [4.58 MB]

C5 - travel plan [2.29 MB]

C6 - landscape and visual impact assessment [10.64 MB]

C7 - ecological assessment with appendices (incl. Shadow HRA) [31.84 MB]

C8 - historic environment desk based assessment [6.28 MB]

C9 - lighting strategy [6.99 MB]

C10 - open space assessment [346.48 KB]

C11 - planning and affordable housing statement [598.29 KB]

C12 - energy statement [320.56 KB]

C13 - flood risk assessment and drainage strategy [5.73 MB]

C14 - transport technical note (December 2021) with appendices [11.49 MB]

C15 - traffic surveys [45.03 MB]

C16 - response to LLFA comments from the appellant (11 Jan 2022) [400.88 KB]

C17 - archaeological evaluation report [6.2 MB]

C18 - consultation comments - Council Archaeologist (23 August 2021) [195.1 KB]

C19 - consultation comments - Avon Fire and Rescue (26 August 2021) [427.47 KB]

C20 - consultation comments - The Mendip Society (27 August 2021) [117.5 KB]

C21 - consultation comments - Wrington Parish Council (7 September 2021) [133.27 KB]

C22 - consultation comments - Housing Development Officer (8 September 2021) [202.58 KB]

C23 - consultation comments - Avon and Somerset Police (9 September 2021) [115.83 KB]

C24 - consultation comments - Churchill Parish Council (13 September 2021) [463.85 KB]

C25 - consultation comments - Mendip Hills AONB Unit (10 September 2021) [231.3 KB]

C26 - consultation comments - Flood Risk Management Team (24 September 2021) [225.94 KB]

C27 - consultation comments - Flood Risk Management Team (23 December 2021) [127.58 KB]

C28 - arboricultural impact assessment [3.7 MB]

C29 - consultation comments - Conservation Officer (31 August 2021) [250.45 KB]

C30 - consultation comments - Local Highway Authority (8 October 2021) [597.54 KB]

C31 - consultation comments - Local Highway Authority (21 October 2021) [334.5 KB]

C32 - consultation comments - Local Highway Authority (11 February 2022) [534.09 KB]

C33 - consultation comments - Local Highway Authority (11 April 2022) [534.09 KB]

C34 - consultation comments - Council Ecologist (9 February 2022) [231.07 KB]

Section D - appeal documents

D1 - appellant statement of case [389.41 KB]

D2 - council statement of case [841.93 KB]

D3 - draft S106 heads of terms [231.62 KB]

Section E - landscape documents

E1 - guidelines for landscape and visual impact assessment 3rd edition (2013) [22.12 MB]

E2 - Landscape Institute technical guidance note 06/19 ‘visual representation of development proposals' [1.9 MB]

E3 - national design guide 2019 [10.47 MB]

E4 - National Character Area (NCA) 118: Bristol, Avon Valleys and Ridges [4.27 MB]

E5 - North Somerset landscape sensitivity assessment March 2018 [17.61 MB]

E6 - Mendips Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) management plan 2019 - 2024 [1.79 MB]

Section F - heritage documents

F1 - Churchill Conservation Area appraisal and management plan [2.46 MB]

F2 - Chartered Institute for Archaeologists, 2017, standard and guidance for historic environment desk-based assessment [291.34 KB]

F3 - IEMA, IHBC and CIfA 2021 principles of cultural heritage impact assessment in the UK (2021) [430.47 KB]

F4 - Historic England 2008: conservation principles, polices and guidance for the sustainable management of the historic environment [288.66 KB]

F5 - Historic England 2015: managing significance in decision-taking in the historic environment: historic environment good practice advice in planning 2 [238.94 KB]

F6 - Historic England 2019: Historic England advice note 1: conservation area designation, appraisal and management (second edition) [410.44 KB]

F7 - Historic England 2017 listing selection guide: places of worship [1.86 MB]

F8 - Historic England 2017: the setting of heritage assets: historic environment good practice advice in planning note 3 (second edition) [323.19 KB]

F9 - Historic England 2019: Historic England advice note 12: statements of heritage significance: analysing significance in heritage assets [372.15 KB]

F10 - Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 2019, National Planning policy guidance (PPG) [858.45 KB]

F11 - Planning (Listed buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 Act of UK Parliament [6.22 MB]

F12 - Officers report for planning application 20P1376FUL - Churchill Academy and Sixth Form Centre, Churchill [124.67 KB]

F13 - Officers report for planning application 13P1177F – Little Court, Church Lane, Churchill [2.01 MB]

Section G - relevant appeal decisions and High Court judgments

G1 - 3004788 – 14/P/1901/O – Brinsea Road Congresbury, North Somerset [227.63 KB]

G2 - 3138816 – 15/P/0248/O – Knightcott Road Banwell, North Somerset [278.77 KB]

G3 - 3151600 – 15/P/2828/O – Wrington Lane Congresbury, North Somerset [254.61 KB]

G4 - 3166147 – 16/P/1291/O – Cox’s Green Wrington, North Somerset [353.78 KB]

G5 - 3176151 – 16/P/1707/O – Brinsea Road Congresbury, North Somerset [163.78 KB]

G6 - 3170103 – 15/P/1918/O – Stowey Road Yatton, North Somerset [174.52 KB]

G7 - 3153935 – 15/P/0315/O – Farleigh Fields, Backwell, North Somerset [959.43 KB]

G8 - 3206914 – 17/P/2111/O – Western Trade Centre Banwell, North Somerset [291.83 KB]

G9 - 3207635 – 17/P/2344/O – Lostwood Langford, North Somerset [137.61 KB]

G10 - 3279745 – 20/P/2257/OUT – Western Trade Centre Banwell, North Somerset [150.88 KB]

G11 - 3170939 – 16/P/0798/O – land off Front Street adjacent to Oakhill, Churchill [135.37 KB]

G12 - 3212455 – 17/P/5546/OUT – land adjacent to Oakhill, Front Street, Churchill [137.98 KB]

G13 - 3243180 – 19/P/1959/FUL – land north of Oakhill and Kewstoke Lodge, Front Street, Churchill [118.44 KB]

G14 - 3259854 – 20/P/0056/FUL – land north of Oakhill and Kewstoke Lodge, Front Street, Churchill [131.86 KB]

G15 - 3278138 – 20/P/2553/OUT – land adjacent to Barrowfield Cottage, Front Street, Churchill [236.11 KB]

G16 - 3276229 – land at Church Street, Effingham, Leatherhead [128.86 KB]

G17 - 3276315 – land to the west of Prayors Hill, Sible Hedingam, Essex [183.47 KB]

G18 - 3282884 – land southwest of Church Bank, Main Road, Over Kellet Lancashire [129.36 KB]

G19 - 3256319 – land off Ashmead Drive, Gotherington [299.38 KB]

G20 - 3236860 – land north of St George’s Road, Semington [179.79 KB]

G21 - 3275477 – land to the south of Chilvester Hill, Calne [408.93 KB]

G22 - 3223010 – 97 Barbrook Lane, Tiptree, Colchester [691.35 KB]

G23 - 3204011 – Pale Lane Farm, Fleet, Hart [684.28 KB]

G24 - 2197532 – land off Audlem Road/Broad Lane, Stapeley Nantwich [1.3 MB]

G25 - 3230827 – Oxford Brookes University, Wheatly Campus [1.12 MB]

G26 - 3184845 – Weston Business Park, Locking [431.66 KB]

G27 - 3139633 – land to the north of A368, Sandford [377.15 KB]

G28 - 3262600 – Former Loxley Works, Sheffield [368.5 KB]

G29 - 3169314 – land to the east of Newport Road and to the east and west of Cranfield Road, Woburn Sands [923.53 KB]

G30 - 3256206 – land north east of Becket’s Grove, Wymondham [333.06 KB]

G31 - 2197532 and 2197529 – land off Audlem Road/Broad lane, Stapeley and land off Peter de Stapeleigh Way, Nantwich [1.13 MB]

G32 - 3216104 – land off Popes Lane, Sturry [360.13 KB]

G33 - 3238460 – land at Caddywell Lane/Burwood Lane, Great Torrington [405.97 KB]

G34 - 3181269 – land off Mill Road, Cranfield [501.54 KB]

G35 - 3265861 – Little Sparrows, Sonning Common [549.12 KB]

G36 - 3230164 – land at Windacres Farm, Rudgwick [225.05 KB]

G37 - 3178656 – land off Bakers Lane, Colchester [449.63 KB]

G38 - 3190821 – Entech House, Woolmer Green [223.09 KB]

G39 - 3194926 – land on east side of Green Road, Woolpit [358.73 KB]

G40 - 3207509 – land off Colchester Road, Bures Hamlet [222.25 KB]

G41 - 3222428 – land at Tappers Farm, Bodicote [171.55 KB]

G42 - 3226074 – land adjacent to the north side of Natland Mill Beck Lane, Kendal [203.48 KB]

G43 - Wainhomes (South West) Holdings Ltd and the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government et al [2013] EWHC 597 (admin) High Court Judgment [308.98 KB]

G44 - Hallam land [2018] EWCA 1808 (Civ) Court of Appeal Judgment [285.05 KB]

G45 - 3259868 – Pump Lane, Rainham, Gillingham [1.99 MB]

G46 - 3285343 – land at Moor Road, Yatton [425.7 KB]

G47 - Suffolk Coastal District Council vs Hopkins Homes Ltd. [2017] UKSC 37 [290.37 KB]

Section H - plans to be approved

H1 - site location plan (204414-IDL-01-XX-DR-A-C1001-S1-P01) [433.21 KB]

H2 - proposed site access off Church Lane (3242.04 rev A) [844.27 KB]

H3 - proposed site access off Front Street (3242.06 rev B) [1.07 MB]

Section I - illustrative plans

I1 - indicative site layout (194414-IDL-01-ZZ-DR-C1005-S1-P12) [3.3 MB]

I2 - indicative elevations and street scenes (194414-IDL-01-XX-DR-C10019-S3-P03) [3.74 MB]

I3 - landscape masterplan (P19-1934-08C) [3.68 MB]

Section J - housing land supply documents

J1 - residential land survey headline findings report April 2021 [682.16 KB]

J2 - five-year housing land supply position statement April 2021 [312.43 KB]

J3 - housing trajectory April 2021 [415.83 KB]

J4 - Scott Schedule to appeal at Rectory Farm Chescombe Road Yatton [436.27 KB]

J5 - housing land supply statement of common ground to appeal at land at Farleigh Farm Backwell [174.92 KB]

J6 - start to finish report, Lichfields [1.98 MB]

J7 - strategic housing market assessment 2009 [3.66 MB]

J8 - West of England topic paper 1 (formulation of the housing requirement) [836.25 KB]

J9 - annual monitoring report 2020 [1.71 MB]

J10 - North Somerset Council housing delivery test action plan July 2021 [828.19 KB]

Section K - other documents

K1 - email correspondence between appellant and LPA (22 September to 10 December 2021) [474.09 KB]

K2 - email correspondence between appellant and LPA (11 January to 24 January 2022) [383.14 KB]

K3 - emerging locational policy LP8 [478.01 KB]