®Planning appeal decision
Bay Hotel, 2 Eastbourne Road, Pevensey Bay, PEVENSEY, BN24 6EJ
a change of use of the ground floor from hotel bar/restaurant to convenience store and 1.5 storey rear extension together with raising the rear balcony and external staircase and alterations to the front elevation. Current hotel rooms above retained with minor internal and external alterations at first floor level
- Authority
- Wealden District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- retail · Change of use
- Inspector
- Holden S
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The effect of the development on the significance of The Bay Hotel, a non-designated heritage asset
- The effect of the development on the safety and operation of the surrounding highway network having regard to access, parking provision and servicing arrangements
- Whether or not the change of use would result in the unnecessary loss of community facilities
What decided it
The Inspector concluded that the proposal would not cause material harm to the heritage asset, highway safety or community facilities, and therefore accorded with the development plan as a whole.
the limited heritage harm and change in character of the ground floor were outweighed by the retention of an active frontage, preservation of the hotel's principal significance, and absence of highway or community facility harm, so the proposal complied with the development plan as a whole
Framework references: 203, 84, 93, 56
Plan policies cited: Policy EN27, Policy TR3, Policy TR16, Policy WCS14
Judgments cited: Saga Vishnubhai Patel v Dacorum BC [2019] EWHC 2992 (Admin)
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.