Planning appeal decision
Land at Rides House Farm, Warden Road, Eastchurch, Kent, ME12 4HA
Planning appeal 3368057 at Land at Rides House Farm, Warden Road, Eastchurch, Kent, ME12 4HA (Swale Borough Council) was dismissed on 14 November 2025 by Inspector Courtney T, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the proposal would constitute permitted development under Class Q of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended).
the change of use of a building and any land within its curtilage from agricultural to 1no. dwellinghouse and associated operation development
- Authority
- Swale Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Courtney T
- Postcode
- ME12 4HA
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal would constitute permitted development under Class Q of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended)
What decided it
The physical conversion of the agricultural building had already begun before the prior approval application was submitted, meaning the procedural requirements of Class Q of the GPDO could not be satisfied.
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.
With an account
What an account adds to this decision


More decisions in Swale
The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2025
- Dismissed13 October 20266004547Land at Plumpudding Lane, Dargate, ME13 9HB
- Allowed1 October 202660147498, Ospringe Road, Faversham, ME13 7LJ
- Dismissed25 September 20266010408Pigeon Farm Cottage, Cold Harbour Lane, Bobbing, ME9 8NN
- Allowed6 August 20266011728Irie, Minster Drive, Minster-on-Sea, ME12 2NG
- Dismissed14 July 20266002253Land 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.
®