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Allowed19 August 20223285498

Bay Hotel, 2 Eastbourne Road, Pevensey Bay, Pevensey, BN24 6EJ

Planning appeal 3285498 at Bay Hotel, 2 Eastbourne Road, Pevensey Bay, Pevensey, BN24 6EJ (Wealden District Council) was allowed on 19 August 2022 by Inspector Holden S, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The effect of the development on the significance of The Bay Hotel, a non-designated heritage asset.

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
Postcode
BN24 6EJ

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

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy EN27Policy TR3Policy TR16Policy WCS14
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 203Paragraph 84Paragraph 93Paragraph 56
Judgments
Saga Vishnubhai Patel v Dacorum BC [2019] EWHC 2992 (Admin)

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