®Planning appeal decision
Beacon Down Vineyard, Browns Lane, Cross In Hand, HEATHFIELD, TN21 0QJ
described as: Use of land and buildings for agricultural purposes to include for the growing of grapes and producing/storing of wine from grapes grown on the site only together with the sale of the wine produced from the site grown grapes and the provision of tours, tastings and refreshments
- Authority
- Wealden District Council
- Appeal type
- ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- agricultural · Major retail and services
- Inspector
- Hocking P
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the Council's decision to have only issued a certificate in the aforementioned terms is well founded
What decided it
The appellant failed to discharge the burden of proof on the balance of probabilities by providing insufficient evidence of the proposed production balance and activity quantification to demonstrate that off-site wine production and tours would remain ordinarily incidental and reasonably necessary to the primary agricultural use of growing grapes.
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.