24 Athelstan Road, Faversham, ME13 8QL

Planning appeal 3365785 at 24 Athelstan Road, Faversham, ME13 8QL (Swale Borough Council) was dismissed on 22 August 2025 by Inspector Desai S, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The effect of the proposed development on the character and appearance of the host dwelling and the surrounding area, including whether it would preserve or enhance the character or appearance of the Faversham Conservation Area.

Demolition of existing rear extension, erection of a single storey rear and side extension, insertion of new window to side elevation, loft conversion with rear dormer including Juliet Balcony and rooflights to front elevation. Creation of new pedestrian access gate from adjacent public footpath following removal of existing pedestrian access gate. Removal of existing chimney”

Authority: Swale Borough Council
Appeal type: householder · Householder (HAS)
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Householder developments
Inspector: Desai S
Postcode: ME13 8QL

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

The effect of the proposed development on the character and appearance of the host dwelling and the surrounding area, including whether it would preserve or enhance the character or appearance of the Faversham Conservation Area

What decided it

The harm to the character and appearance of the conservation area caused by the scale, bulk and design of the proposed extensions, particularly the rear dormer, was not outweighed by the modest public benefit of improved accommodation.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: CP4DM14DM16DM33FAV10FAV11
National Planning Policy Framework: Paragraph 215

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

54 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

Dismissed13 October 20266004547
Land at Plumpudding Lane, Dargate, ME13 9HB
Allowed1 October 20266014749
8, Ospringe Road, Faversham, ME13 7LJ
Dismissed25 September 20266010408
Pigeon Farm Cottage, Cold Harbour Lane, Bobbing, ME9 8NN
Allowed6 August 20266011728
Irie, Minster Drive, Minster-on-Sea, ME12 2NG
Dismissed14 July 20266002253
Land East Of Holywell Primary School, Forge Lane, Upchurch, ME9 7AD

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.