®Planning appeal decision
Maplebank Maplescombe Lane, Farningham, DARTFORD, DA4 0JY
Change of use of the Land and associated buildings from agriculture to storage for building supplies (PPE, site tools, site equipment, plant hire and others), office supplies, trailers and containers and creation of office spaces and asbestos removal spaces including B1 and B8 uses
- Authority
- Sevenoaks District Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- employment-industrial · Change of use
- Inspector
- Hocking P
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether or not the mixed use is inappropriate development within the Green Belt for the purposes of the National Planning Policy Framework
- the effect of the mixed use on the landscape and scenic beauty of the Kent Downs AONB
- if the mixed use is inappropriate, whether the harm by reason of inappropriateness, and any other harm, is clearly outweighed by other considerations, so as to amount to the very special circumstances necessary to justify the development
What decided it
The mixed use is inappropriate development in the Green Belt that fails to preserve openness and harms the Kent Downs AONB, with no very special circumstances to justify it.
Framework references: 137, 138, 150
Plan policies cited: Policy LO8 of the Sevenoaks Core Strategy, February 2011, Policy EN5 of the Sevenoaks Allocations and Development Management Plan, February 2015
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.