Great news! DBC’s planning officer has refused CALA’s application to amend planning conditions at Rectory Farm, which were allowed under appeal at the public inquiry
The KL&DRA has been working jointly with Sunnyside Rural Trust and the Kings Langley Parish Council to hold CALA Homes to account and ensure they do not dilute their commitment to conditions that are valuable to our village community. Our collaboration has worked!
We outlined what was happening in our previous blog post (Rectory Farm - CALA Homes trying to wriggle out of their commitments to conditions agreed at the public inquiry), and we are now very pleased to see that the planning officer has agreed with us and refused the application.
The refusal decision notice states:
“The changes go beyond those considered to be non-material and would substantially reduce the overall quality of open space provision and access to open attractive open space areas within the proposed development. This would be contrary to paragraph 140 of the National Planning Policy Framework and Policies CS8 and CS12 of the Core Strategy.”
The KL&DRA, along with Sunnyside Rural Trust and the Kings Langley Parish Council are determined to ensure that the community in Kings Langley gets all the benefits originally agreed by the Planning Inspector at the public inquiry.
Considering the loss of this valuable Green Belt site to our village, the very least our community should expect is a high commitment by the developer to honour that provision.
We will continue to monitor any further changes that may arise and expect to open a regular dialogue with CALA Homes, to ensure no further detriment to the community benefits.
We would like to thank all those residents that submitted comments on this application.
The planning application (ref: 25/00904/NMA), can be viewed here.
Work has started at Rectory Farm (April 2025)