Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Allowed12 February 20263373391

Woodlands Garage, Chapel Road, Smallfield, Horley, Surrey, RH6 9NN

Planning appeal 3373391 at Woodlands Garage, Chapel Road, Smallfield, Horley, Surrey, RH6 9NN (Tandridge District Council) was allowed on 12 February 2026 by Inspector Glassar S, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the condition is reasonable and necessary having regard to sustainable transport.

Demolition of existing buildings and the erection of 9 no. 3 bed dwellings with associated parking and landscaping (Amended Scheme)

Authority
Tandridge District Council
Appeal type
major · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
residential · Major dwellings
Inspector
Glassar S
Postcode
RH6 9NN

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether the condition is reasonable and necessary having regard to sustainable transport

What decided it

The condition accords with the NPPF's sustainable transport objectives and local plan policy, is proportionate to the development size, and is enforceable when properly worded.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy DP7 of the Tandridge Local Plan Part Two 2014
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 57

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

51 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 Tandridge District Council

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2026

  1. Dismissed26 October 20266014139
    31a Banstead Road, Caterham, CR3 5QH
  2. Allowed25 September 20266006497
    Land at Mount Avenue, Chaldon, CR3 5BB
  3. Dismissed23 September 20266008688
    Land Adjacent to Farm View Cottage, Lingfield Road, East Grinstead, RH19 2JW
  4. Allowed13 July 20266002345
    Land Adjacent to Heathview, Eastbourne Road, Blindley Heath, RH7 6LG
  5. Allowed13 July 20266002255
    Winnies Woodland, Eastbourne Road, Blindley Heath, Lingfield, RH7 6LG

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.

In the app this decision sits on the map beside every appeal around it, with its letter to read and the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out.