®Planning appeal decision
Unit 17-18 Bellingham Trading Estate, Franthorne Way, LONDON, SE6 3BX
The unauthorised material change of use from Use Class B8 (Storage or distribution) to Use class F1 (Place of Worship)
- Authority
- London Borough of Lewisham
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- community-institutional · Change of use
- Inspector
- Hanson S
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the use of Units 17 and 18 as a place of worship is acceptable within the Strategic Industrial Location (SIL)
- the impact of the use on the function of the SIL
What decided it
The loss of safeguarded employment floorspace within the Strategic Industrial Location and the harmful impact of the use on the Estate's operational function outweighed the benefits of the Church's community role.
the benefits of the Church's community, educational and charitable role were not sufficient to outweigh the substantial harm from loss of employment floorspace and the harm to the function of the SIL, so the proposal conflicted with the development plan as a whole
Plan policies cited: Policy D1 (LP21), Policy D3 (LP21), Policy D5 (LP21), Policy E4 (LP21), Policy E5 (LP21), Policy GG1 (LP21), Policy GG2 (LP21), Policy GG5 (LP21), Policy QD1 (LLP), Policy QD2 (LLP), Policy QD6 (LLP), Policy CI1 (LLP), Policy CI2 (LLP), Policy EC1 (LLP), Policy EC2 (LLP), Policy EC5 (LLP)
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.