Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Allowed29 June 20266007055

All Saints Hotel, The Street, Fornham St Genevieve, Bury St Edmunds, IP28 6JQ

Planning appeal 6007055 at All Saints Hotel, The Street, Fornham St Genevieve, Bury St Edmunds, IP28 6JQ (West Suffolk) was allowed on 29 June 2026 by Inspector T Bennett, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The effect of varying condition 2 on the character and appearance of the area.

Planning application - variation of condition 2 (approved plans) of DC/21/1142/FUL (allowed on appeal) to allow alternative lodges without complying with 1 condition attached to planning permission Ref DC/23/0622, dated 19 June 2023

Authority
West Suffolk
Appeal type
Planning
Procedure
Written
Development
leisure-sport
Inspector
T Bennett
Postcode
IP28 6JQ

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • The effect of varying condition 2 on the character and appearance of the area

What decided it

The additional infrastructure items do not cause material harm to character and appearance when assessed against the semi-rural, edge of settlement context, particularly given the CLEUD for the electricity substation and the proposed landscaping mitigation.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy SP4Policy SP9Policy SP24Policy LP7Policy LP8Policy LP9Policy SP7Policy LP12Policy LP27

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

20 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 West Suffolk

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

  1. Dismissed6 August 20266006691
    Walnut Tree Barn, Thetford Road, Barnham, IP24 2PA
  2. Dismissed2 July 20266006355
    Laurel Farm, Sandy Drove, Lakenheath, IP27 9GT
  3. Allowed17 June 20266005559
    Land Opposite 'Mandarin' and Adj to South View, Wilde St, Beck Row, Mildenhall, IP28 8BL
  4. Allowed17 June 20266004217
    The Coal Yard, Wilde Street, Beck Row, IP28 8BL
  5. Allowed15 April 20266002651
    Depden Hall, The Green, Depden, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP29 4BY

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.