Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Allowed1 February 20233287434

Lyndhurst, Main Street, Peasmarsh, Rye, East Sussex, TN31 6YA

Planning appeal 3287434 at Lyndhurst, Main Street, Peasmarsh, Rye, East Sussex, TN31 6YA (Rother District Council) was allowed on 1 February 2023 by Inspector Smith D, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The effect on holiday accommodation provision in the District having regard to local policies relating, in particular, to viability and marketing.

change of use from granny annexe/holiday let to separate residential dwelling

Authority
Rother District Council
Appeal type
minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
residential · Change of use
Inspector
Smith D
Postcode
TN31 6YA

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • The effect on holiday accommodation provision in the District having regard to local policies relating, in particular, to viability and marketing

What decided it

The building has a lawful and beneficial alternative use as an annexe, the holiday let use is not financially viable and has been abandoned for two years, and the loss of this single unit would have insignificant impact on the overall supply of holiday accommodation in the district.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy EC6Policy DEC3Policy DCO1Policy DEC2Policy PEA1

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

10 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 Rother District Council

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2023

  1. Dismissed22 September 20266008634
    Barn House, Warren Road, Fairlight, TN35 4AN
  2. Dismissed26 January 20263372099
    Downash Wood Treehouses, Tinkers Lane, Ticehurst, East Sussex, TN5 7LU
  3. Allowed16 October 20253369884
    Willow Wood, 84 Westfield Lane, Westfield, East Sussex, TN37 7NQ
  4. Allowed29 September 20253354261
    Former Moorhurst Care Home, Main Road , Westfield, East Sussex, TN35 4SL
  5. Dismissed17 July 20253359439
    Grenada Close, Bexhill on Sea, TN39 3TN

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.