Section 4 – Promoting sustainable transport
- The 2012 NPPF: A Digest of Decisions
- Introduction
- Achieving Sustainable Development
- Section 1 – Building a strong, competitive economy
- Section 2 – Ensuring the vitality of town centres
- Section 3 – Supporting a prosperous rural economy
- Section 4 – Promoting sustainable transport
- Section 5 – Supporting high quality communications infrastructure
- Section 6 – Delivering a wide choice of high quality homes
- Section 7 – Requiring good design
- Section 8 – Promoting healthy communities
- Section 9 – Protecting Green Belt land
- Section 10 – Meeting the challenge of climate change, flooding and coastal change
- Section 11 – Conserving and enhancing the natural environment
- Section 12 – Conserving and enhancing the historic environment
- Section 13 – Facilitating the sustainable use of minerals
- Plan-making
- Decision-taking
- Annex I: Implementation
NPPF 29-41
NPPF 32
Redhill Aerodrome Ltd [2014] EWCA Civ 1386, Sullivan, Tomlinson, Lewison LJJ
James Maurici QC appeared for the First Appellant Secretary of State
Stephen Whale appeared on behalf of the Second and Third Appellant Councils
Christopher Katkowski QC and Alistair Mills appeared on behalf of the Respondent, Redhill Aerodrome
“It does not follow from the (new) policy that permission should only be refused on transport grounds where the residual cumulative impacts of a development are severe, that when considering whether permission for inappropriate development in the Green Belt should be granted, an adverse residual cumulative transport impact of that development that is less than severe should be ignored when an Inspector is deciding whether “the potential harm to the Green Belt by reason of inappropriateness, and any other harm”, is clearly outweighed by “other considerations”, which would include any beneficial transport considerations, eg an offer to provide a bus service to the development, or to fund the construction of a new railway station.” [28]