®Planning appeal decision
Land at Bodiam Business Centre, Junction Road, Bodiam, TN32 5UW
erection of 4 x 3 bedroom terraced dwellings together with associated car parking and landscaping
- Authority
- Rother District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- Buchanan R
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the site would be an appropriate location for housing, having regard to the Council's spatial strategy for development
- whether the proposal would result in the unjustified loss of a site for employment or community use
- whether it would provide satisfactory living conditions for future occupants having regard to outdoor private amenity space and to noise and disturbance
What decided it
The adverse impacts of granting planning permission—including conflict with the spatial strategy, loss of employment land, inadequate private amenity space, and potential noise disturbance—significantly and demonstrably outweighed the modest benefits of four dwellings, such that the presumption in favour of sustainable development did not apply.
The modest social, economic and environmental benefits of four dwellings (moderate weight) were significantly and demonstrably outweighed by the fundamental conflict with the spatial strategy, loss of employment land, inadequate private amenity space, and potential noise harm (each with significant weight), such that the presumption in favour of sustainable development did not apply.
Framework references: 11
Plan policies cited: Policy OSS2, Policy OSS3, Policy OSS4(i), Policy RA3(iii), Policy TR3, Policy EC3(i), Policy DIM2, Policy DEC3(i), Policy DCO1, Policy DHG7(i), Policy DEN7
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.