2nd Floor of 46a High street, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN1 1XF

Notification of Prior Approval for change of use of the 2nd floor of the building from offices carrying out any operational or business functions (Class E(g)(ii)) to 1 no: 2 bedroom flat (Class C3) with no external alterations to building elevations

Authority: Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Change of use
Inspector: Pattison B

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

The impacts of noise from existing commercial premises on the intended future occupiers of the development

What decided it

The inability to impose enforceable conditions controlling the operation of the leased nightclub meant that harmful noise impacts on future residential occupiers could not be appropriately mitigated.

Framework references: 130, 185

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