®Planning appeal decision
5 The Drive, Hove, BN3 3JE
for the change of use of upper floors (Commercial Class E) to Residential (C3)
- Authority
- Brighton and Hove City Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Perrins N
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the change of use of the building to residential would result in the unacceptable loss of community and office facilities
What decided it
The failure to demonstrate that the community and office uses are no longer needed, combined with the significant weight attached to the conflict with development plan policies, outweighed the moderate weight given to housing delivery benefits in the context of the tilted balance.
The adverse impacts of losing community and office facilities, contrary to the development plan, significantly and demonstrably outweighed the modest contribution to housing supply and economic benefits, even applying the tilted balance under NPPF paragraph 11 due to the lack of a 5-year housing supply.
Framework references: 11, 69, 93, 125
Plan policies cited: Policy DM9, Policy CP3, Policy CP19
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.