Halls Green Activity Centre, Hale Oak Road, Sevenoaks Weald, TN14 6NQ

continued use of the site and buildings for recreational and leisure purposes in accordance with long established use, 94/01739/HIST and 05/01398/FUL and the construction of two buildings approved under planning permission reference 94/01739/HIST

Authority: Sevenoaks District Council
Appeal type: ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: leisure-sport · Other Major Developments
Inspector: Hand S

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the 1995 planning permission (94/01739/HIST) can still be lawfully implemented to construct the two unbuilt buildings (focal building and games room)
Whether the use of the site for outdoor recreational and leisure purposes remains lawful

What decided it

The 1995 planning permission is no longer implementable because the 2018 housing development has physically prevented construction of the unbuilt buildings and extinguished the activity centre for which they were designed, and the recreational use of the site has been abandoned.

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