London Electricity Board Depot, Churchfields Road, London, BR3 4QY

Full application for the temporary (5 years) change of use from Sui Generis formed of an electricity undertaker’s depot to a dual use of Class B8 and Sui Generis retaining the existing electricity undertaker’s depot. Retrospective

Authority: London Borough of Bromley
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Inquiry
Development: employment-industrial · Change of use
Inspector: Madge M

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

the development's effect on the living conditions of neighbouring occupiers, with regards to noise and disturbance associated with comings and goings to and from the site as well as on site activities
the development's effect on highway safety

What decided it

Whether the noise and traffic impacts on neighbouring residents and highway safety could be adequately mitigated through planning conditions.

the benefits of intensifying the use of underused previously developed industrial land for employment purposes were not outweighed by noise or highway safety harm once mitigated by conditions restricting hours, out-of-hours HGV movements and pole cutting

Framework references: 198

Plan policies cited: Policy GG2, Policy D3, Policy E4, Policy E7, Policy 83, Policy 119, Policy D13, Policy D14, Policy T3, Policy 32, Policy 31, Policy 37, Policy 122

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