®Planning appeal decision
Beulah Baptist Church, Clifford Road, BEXHILL-ON-SEA, TN40 1QA
- Authority
- Rother District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- community-institutional · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- Hunter A
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- the effect of the proposed development on the non-designated heritage asset (NDHA), known as The Sanctuary
- the effect of the proposed development on the character and appearance of the building and the area, with particular regard to its scale and design
- the effect of the proposed development on protected species
What decided it
The combination of harmful scale and design to the character and appearance of the site, together with insufficient evidence to rule out harm to protected species (bats), outweighed the identified benefits and led to conflict with the development plan as a whole.
the moderate community benefits, limited economic and environmental benefits, and limited weight attached to a fallback demolition scenario did not outweigh the harm to character and appearance and the unresolved uncertainty over protected species, resulting in conflict with the development plan taken as a whole
Framework references: 203, 209, 135, 139, 180, 186, 56
Plan policies cited: RLP Policy BX1, RLP Policy EN3, RLP Policy EN5, DSA Policy DEN4
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.