Land to the south of Chart Leacon Depot, Leacon Road, Ashford, TN23 4AB

use of the site for open storage (Use Class B8) with associated laying of hard standing installation of perimeter fence without complying with conditions attached to planning permission ref PA/2022/2312, dated 3 April 2025

Authority: Ashford Borough Council
Appeal type: major · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: employment-industrial · Major general industry/storage/warehousing
Inspector: Housden C

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether conditions 14 and 15 of planning permission PA/2022/2312 meet the tests of paragraph 57 of the National Planning Policy Framework, with particular regard to the living conditions of the occupiers of nearby properties situated along Riverview and Clockhouse by way of noise and disturbance

What decided it

The Noise Assessment Update demonstrated compliance with the established British Standard BS 4142:2014+A1:2019, showing noise levels would fall below the threshold for adverse impact, making the original time-based and parking restrictions unnecessary to protect neighbouring residential amenity.

Framework references: 57

Plan policies cited: Policy EMP1 of the Ashford Local Plan (2019)

Read the decision letter on the Inspectorate’s site

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.

What an account adds

Draw a red line around your site and the appraisal follows.

Heritage. Listed buildings by grade and distance, conservation areas, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, heritage at risk.
Landscape and environment. Green belt, national parks and national landscapes, SSSIs, ancient woodland, SPA, SAC and Ramsar sites, nutrient catchments.
Flooding. Flood zones 2 and 3, surface water, and both again with climate change.
Transport. The 800 metre station catchment and service frequency, bus stops with their weekday frequency, the cycle network, and the Framework’s transport tests measured for the site.

Then the development plan position, the housing land supply as an Inspector last accepted it, and every appeal decided around the site with its letter.

Every English appeal since 2016, with the letter behind it wherever the Inspectorate published one. Searched by meaning as well as by words, with the key case law counted live across the letters.

Casework that chases the deadlines. Applications, appeals and conditions with their statutory dates.

The judgement stays yours. The tool gathers the material and dates it.