Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Allowed8 June 20266003458

Salvation Place, Bell Farm Lane, Minster, ME12 4JB

Planning appeal 6003458 at Salvation Place, Bell Farm Lane, Minster, ME12 4JB (Swale) was allowed on 8 June 2026 by Inspector N Bowden, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the location of the site is suitable for the use, with particular regard to the risk of coastal erosion.

material change of use of land for stationing of caravans for residential occupation with associated development (hard standing, 2 sheds and cess pool)

Authority
Swale
Appeal type
Planning
Procedure
Hearing
Development
caravan-gypsy
Inspector
N Bowden
Postcode
ME12 4JB

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • whether the location of the site is suitable for the use, with particular regard to the risk of coastal erosion
  • the effect of the development on the Thames, Medway and Swale Estuary Special Protection Area and Ramsar Site
  • whether there are any other material considerations that are pertinent to the appeal

What decided it

The significant and persistent shortfall in the supply of gypsy and traveller pitches, combined with the limited immediate erosion risk to the mobile home's actual position, outweighed the conflict with policy DM23.

the significant shortfall in gypsy and traveller pitch supply and lack of alternative sites outweighed the conflict with policy DM23 and the risk to life and property from coastal erosion, justifying a temporary five-year permission

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy DM23Policy DM28Policy ST1Policy DM14
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 184Paragraph 185Paragraph 11Paragraph 56Paragraph 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

35 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 2026

  1. Dismissed13 October 20266004547
    Land at Plumpudding Lane, Dargate, ME13 9HB
  2. Allowed1 October 20266014749
    8, Ospringe Road, Faversham, ME13 7LJ
  3. Dismissed25 September 20266010408
    Pigeon Farm Cottage, Cold Harbour Lane, Bobbing, ME9 8NN
  4. Allowed6 August 20266011728
    Irie, Minster Drive, Minster-on-Sea, ME12 2NG
  5. 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.

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.