®Planning appeal decision
10, Trinity Crescent, Folkestone, Kent, CT20 2ET
- Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- leisure-sport · Change of use
- Inspector
- Davies N
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the conditions are necessary and reasonable having regard to the Council's development plan policy to retain holiday let accommodation within the District
What decided it
The conditions imposed are necessary and reasonable to safeguard the tourism use required by Policy E4 of the Local Plan, and there is no overriding evidence to justify setting aside that policy or removing the conditions.
The Council's policy to retain holiday let accommodation within the District, balanced against the appellant's desire to convert the ground floor to permanent residential use, tipped in favour of retaining the holiday let use subject to a temporary three-year trial period with a live-in manager.
Plan policies cited: Policy TM2 of the Shepway District Local Plan 2013, Policy E4 of the Folkestone & Hythe Places and Policies Local Plan 2020
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.