®Planning appeal decision
25-27 Main Road, Hextable, SWANLEY, BR8 7RB
for the erection of a detached four bedroom dwelling with ancillary car parking, cycle and bin storage facilities
- Authority
- Sevenoaks District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Buchanan R
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- the effect of the proposed development on the character and appearance of the area
- the living conditions of the existing occupiers of No.25 and No.27 Main Road, having regard to privacy, and No.70 Panters having regard to outlook
What decided it
The substantial harm to character and appearance and living conditions caused by the dwelling's significant scale, massing and elevated position, combined with its unduly prominent visual impact and overbearing relationship to neighbouring properties, substantially and demonstrably outweighs the moderate benefits of housing supply despite the absence of a five year housing land supply.
The moderate benefits of housing supply and associated social, economic and environmental benefits were substantially outweighed by the substantial harm to character and appearance and living conditions, such that the presumption in favour of sustainable development did not apply.
Framework references: 11, 130
Plan policies cited: Policy EN1, Policy SP1, Policy EN2
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.