In the absence of a signed Planning Obligation, the proposal fails to deliver an appropriate level of affordable housing and contributions that are necessary to make the development accpetable in planning terms. The proposals would be contrary to Policies CS3, CS15, CS17 and CS24 of the Charnwood Local Plan 2011-2028, Core Strategy (2015), the adopted Housing Supplementary Planning Document and Community Infrastructure Levy Regulations.

The site lies beyond the Development Limits of Wymeswold and in a location where, due to limited services and lack of opportunities to use sustainable transport, the Council considers that housing development should only be permitted where it results in small scale and infill development. The proposal is not considered to be small scale or infill development and as such would cause substantive and significant harm to the form and character of the settlement which has a strong historic core and result in the loss of a clear and defined boundary to the settlement through the unacceptable encroachment into the open countryside. The assessment of planning balance identifies that the harm from this unsustainable development would outweigh any benefits arising from the proposal and would be contrary to policies ST/2 and EV/1 of the Borough of Charnwood Local Plan 2004 and policies CS1, CS2, CS11, CS12, CS17 and CS25 of the Charnwood Local Plan 2011-2028, Core Strategy as amplified by the Council's Supplementary Planning Documents, the Wymeswold Village Design Statement and the aims and objectives of the National Planning Policy Framework to deliver housing growth in a plan-led system.