Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Allowed3 April 20253351745

School Lane Farm, Iwade, Kent, ME9 8SG

Planning appeal 3351745 at School Lane Farm, Iwade, Kent, ME9 8SG (Swale Borough Council) was allowed on 3 April 2025 by Inspector Wright A, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether condition 4 is necessary and reasonable with regard to promoting energy efficiency and sustainable development.

Demolition of agricultural building and erection of one self-build dwelling with associated landscaping

Authority
Swale Borough Council
Appeal type
minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector
Wright A
Postcode
ME9 8SG

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether condition 4 is necessary and reasonable with regard to promoting energy efficiency and sustainable development

What decided it

Condition 4 lacks a sufficient policy basis in the adopted Local Plan and therefore is not necessary and reasonable, consistent with previous Secretary of State findings on similar conditions in the same local authority area.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy DM19

How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.

See how each was applied

The decision letter

Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

14 other decided appeals within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision
An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter
Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.
Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app
Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.
Start your free trial

More decisions in Swale

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2025

  1. Allowed13 January 20263368690
    Webbenditch Cottage, Cold Harbour Lane, Bobbing, Kent, ME9 8NN
  2. Dismissed10 December 20253371490
    Callum Park, Basser Hill, Lower Halstow, Kent, ME9 7TY
  3. Dismissed10 December 20253367559
    Land West of Head Hill Road, Graveney, Kent , ME13 9DE
  4. Allowed10 December 20253365131
    Land At Sandbanks Lane And Seasalter Road, Graveney, Kent , ME13 9DU
  5. Dismissed5 December 20253373615
    Land Adj Matts Hill Farm Industrial Estate, Matts Hill Lane, Hartlip Sittingbourne, Kent, ME97UY

The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.

In the app this decision sits on the map beside every appeal around it, with its letter to read and the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out.