Planning appeal decision
Great Bromley Farm, Blackwall Road, Ashford, Kent, TN25 5PA
Planning appeal 3353079 at Great Bromley Farm, Blackwall Road, Ashford, Kent, TN25 5PA (Ashford Borough Council) was allowed on 26 March 2025 by Inspector Smith D, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The transport and highways impacts of the proposed development with particular reference to the use of Blackwall Road to access the site.
a change of use to a building and associated curtilage from agricultural to (B8) storage and distribution
- Authority
- Ashford Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- employment-industrial · Change of use
- Inspector
- Smith D
- Postcode
- TN25 5PA
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The transport and highways impacts of the proposed development with particular reference to the use of Blackwall Road to access the site
What decided it
The proposal would generate less than 6 additional vehicle movements per hour on average, which does not meet the severe residual cumulative impact threshold required by national policy to refuse development on highway grounds.
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