®Planning appeal decision
The Granary, Lower Hill Farm Watermill Lane, BEXHILL-ON-SEA, TN39 5JB
the conversion of an agricultural and commercial storage building to create a detached dwelling with car parking provision (resubmission of RR/2021/2074/P)
- Authority
- Rother District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Wyborn D
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether or not the development plan would support the proposal in this location
- whether or not the proposed dwelling would be located so that occupants could access services and facilities by a range of transport modes
- the effect of the development on ancient woodland
- whether or not the proposed dwelling would provide future occupants with acceptable living conditions, having particular regard to outdoor amenity space
What decided it
The combined substantial weight of the conflicts with development plan policies on location and accessibility, together with the failure to provide acceptable living conditions through inadequate outdoor amenity space, significantly and demonstrably outweighed the moderate benefits of housing delivery in an area with housing supply shortfall.
The substantial harms from location outside settlement boundaries, poor accessibility to services and facilities by sustainable transport modes, and inadequate outdoor amenity space were afforded substantial weight against the scheme, which significantly and demonstrably outweighed the moderate benefits of housing delivery, reuse of previously developed land, and sustainability measures, resulting in the proposal not constituting sustainable development.
Framework references: 11, 11d, 11di, 84
Plan policies cited: Policy OSS2, Policy OSS3, Policy OSS4, Policy RA1, Policy RA3, Policy PC1, Policy SRM1, Policy TR3, Policy DIM2, Policy DHG7, Policy DEN4, Policy EN1, Policy EN5, Policy CS1
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.