Land East of Lynsted Lane, Teynham, ME9 9QN

Planning appeal 3305059 at Land East of Lynsted Lane, Teynham, ME9 9QN (Swale Borough Council) was allowed on 5 October 2023 by Inspector Shearing C, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the development would be suitably located in terms of its accessibility to services and facilities.

the erection of up to 10no. residential dwellings with associated landscaping, road layout and parking

Authority: Swale Borough Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector: Shearing C
Postcode: ME9 9QN

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the development would be suitably located in terms of its accessibility to services and facilities
Whether the proposal would comply with the Council's settlement strategy

What decided it

The Council's inability to demonstrate a five-year housing land supply triggered the presumption in favour of sustainable development under NPPF paragraph 11(d), and the substantial benefits of delivering up to ten homes on a medium-sized site with good accessibility outweighed the significant harm of conflicting with the settlement strategy.

The significant harm from conflict with the settlement strategy was outweighed by the substantial benefits of housing delivery (addressing the identified shortfall in land supply), the site's edge-of-settlement location with good accessibility to services and facilities by sustainable transport, and economic benefits, applying the tilted balance under NPPF paragraph 11(d).

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: Policy ST1Policy ST3
National Planning Policy Framework: Paragraph 11Paragraph 49

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

12 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 Swale

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

Allowed8 July 20263376221
Land West Of Borden Lane, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME9 8HR
Allowed10 December 20253365131
Land At Sandbanks Lane And Seasalter Road, Graveney, Kent , ME13 9DU
Dismissed23 October 20253365056
Cowstead Farm, Queenborough Road, Halfway, Kent, ME12 3RL
Dismissed2 October 20253360939
2 Parsonage Chase, Minster-on-Sea, Sheerness, Kent, ME12 3JL
Planning permission granted24 September 20253366417
Land at The Yard, Beckenham Park Industrial Estate, Sittingbourne, ME8 7UX

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.