®Planning appeal decision
Oriental Hotel, 9 Oriental Place, BRIGHTON, BN1 2LJ
a partial change of use to create events space and C3 maisonette including internal alterations
- Authority
- Brighton and Hove City Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Holden S
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the change of use is justified having regard to the provision of hotel/guest house accommodation in the city and its effect on adjoining occupiers
What decided it
The proposal would result in the loss of 7 rooms of good quality visitor accommodation without substantive evidence of non-viability, conflicting with Policy CP6.6 and the Council's strategy to protect hotel accommodation in the Hotel Core Zone.
the adverse impacts of the loss of visitor accommodation and conflict with economic development policy carried significant weight and significantly and demonstrably outweighed the very limited benefits of a poorly-designed 4-bedroom maisonette and small events space, such that the presumption in favour of sustainable development did not apply
Framework references: 11, 56
Plan policies cited: Policy CP6, Policy CP6.6, Policy CP6.1, Policy CP19, Policy DM20
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.