Planning appeal decision
Bantham Farm, London Road, Hurst Green, TN19 7QY
Planning appeal 3354697 at Bantham Farm, London Road, Hurst Green, TN19 7QY (Rother District Council) was dismissed on 16 December 2025 by Inspector Braithwaite J, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the barn is immune from enforcement action through the passage of time.
Agricultural barn for storage of farm machinery and implements, hay and farm products/supplies
- Authority
- Rother District Council
- Appeal type
- ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- agricultural · Change of use
- Inspector
- Braithwaite J
- Postcode
- TN19 7QY
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the barn is immune from enforcement action through the passage of time
- Whether the barn constitutes permitted development under Schedule 2, Part 6, Class A of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development)(England) Order 2015
What decided it
The barn is neither immune from enforcement action through the passage of time nor permitted development, therefore an LDC cannot be granted.
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