®Planning appeal decision
Maplebank Maplescombe Lane, Farningham, Dartford, DA4 0JY
Planning appeal 3256567 at Maplebank Maplescombe Lane, Farningham, Dartford, DA4 0JY (Sevenoaks District Council) was dismissed on 23 March 2022 by Inspector Hocking P, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether or not the mixed use is inappropriate development within the Green Belt for the purposes of the National Planning Policy Framework.
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
- Postcode
- DA4 0JY
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.
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy LO8 of the Sevenoaks Core Strategy, February 2011Policy EN5 of the Sevenoaks Allocations and Development Management Plan, February 2015
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 137Paragraph 138Paragraph 150
How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.
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