Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Allowed6 March 20233264847

Aldwick House Care Home, 41-45 Nyewood Lane, Bognor Regis, PO21 2SJ

Planning appeal 3264847 at Aldwick House Care Home, 41-45 Nyewood Lane, Bognor Regis, PO21 2SJ (Arun District Council) was allowed on 6 March 2023 by Inspector Webb B, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: the effect of the development on the character of the area.

part change of use from a 32-bed nursing home (C2 Residential Institutions) to a 38-bedsit House in Multiple Occupation (sui generis) comprising 24No single person and 14No two-person bedsits along with separate shower rooms and wcs, demolition of rear conservatory and store and erection of single storey rear extension and with minor external alterations to side elevations and insertion of 4No roof lights on rear elevation and insertion of dormer window serving Room 38 (as detailed in amended plans dated 30 April 2020)

Authority
Arun District Council
Appeal type
minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Hearing
Development
residential · Change of use
Inspector
Webb B
Postcode
PO21 2SJ

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • the effect of the development on the character of the area
  • the effect of the development on the living conditions of neighbouring residents with specific regard to noise and disturbance
  • whether the development would provide satisfactory living conditions for future occupants with regard to the provision of amenity space
  • the effects of the development in relation to parking

What decided it

The Inspector's finding that the pattern of activity, noise, open space and parking demand generated by the HMO would not differ materially or harmfully from the established residential character of the surrounding area, contrary to the findings of the previously quashed decision.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy H SP4Policy QE SP1Policy T SP1
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 57

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.

See how each was applied

The decision letter

Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

84 other decided appeals within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision
An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter
Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.
Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app
Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.
Start your free trial

More decisions in Arun District Council

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2023

  1. Allowed14 August 20266003625
    Land West of Brook Lane and South of A259, Angmering, Angmering, BN16 3JL
  2. Allowed5 August 20266003864
    HM Ford Open Prison, Ford Road, Ford, BN18 0BX
  3. Planning permission granted2 March 20263360505
    27 North Ham Road, Littlehampton, BN17 7AS
  4. Allowed24 December 20253368245
    Land to the North of Lake Lane, Barnham, West Sussex, PO22 0AJ
  5. Allowed25 November 20253365360
    Hanger Down House, Tortington, Arundel, BN18 0BG

The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.

In the app this decision sits on the map beside every appeal around it, with its letter to read and the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out.