Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Dismissed26 August 20223284389

Manak Solicitors, 46 London Road, Sevenoaks, TN13 1AS

Planning appeal 3284389 at Manak Solicitors, 46 London Road, Sevenoaks, TN13 1AS (Sevenoaks District Council) was dismissed on 26 August 2022 by Inspector Redford R, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The effect of the appeal proposal on amenity and whether it would preserve or enhance the character or appearance of the Sevenoaks Town Conservation Area.

a front fascia and projecting hanging signs, side hoarding sign

Authority
Sevenoaks District Council
Appeal type
commercial · Commercial Appeal Service (CAS)
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
advertisement · Other minor developments
Inspector
Redford R
Postcode
TN13 1AS

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • The effect of the appeal proposal on amenity and whether it would preserve or enhance the character or appearance of the Sevenoaks Town Conservation Area

What decided it

The proposed signage would have an adverse impact on visual amenity and fail to preserve or enhance the character and appearance of the Sevenoaks Town Conservation Area, contrary to regulation 3(2) of the Control of Advertisements Regulations 2007 and section 72(1) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy EN1Policy EN4Policy SP1
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 136

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

74 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 Sevenoaks

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2022

  1. Dismissed16 March 20266000946
    Pavement O/S Sevenoaks Train Station, London Road, Sevenoaks, TN13 1DW
  2. Dismissed16 March 20263374181
    Pavement O/S Sevenoaks Train Station, London Road, Sevenoaks, TN13 1DW
  3. Dismissed10 March 20253349019
    Roundabout At Junction With Polhill Morants Court Road, Dunton Green , Kent , TN13 2TR
  4. Dismissed5 March 20253348992
    Roundabout At The Junction With Beggars Lane London Road, Westerham , Kent , TN16 2DH
  5. Allowed26 February 20253349036
    Roundabout North Of Pedham Place Golf Centre, London Road , Farningham , BR8 8PP

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.