# 99 Allington Road, Newick

- **Decision:** dismissed, 17 August 2026
- **Decided by:** Planning Inspector: Alice James
- **Authority:** Lewes (South East)
- **Appeal reference:** 6008050
- **Application reference:** LW/25/0503
- **Procedure:** written-representations
- **Development:** Erection of a detached dwelling in the side garden gap between 99 and 101 Allington Road
- **Homes:** 1
- **Site context:** settlement-edge, inside-settlement
- **Green Belt:** no
- **Framework applied:** No Framework version cited
- **Determinative policies:** Lewes LP CP11, Lewes LPP2 DM25
- **Development plan policies:** Lewes Local Plan Part 1 2016 CP11, Lewes Local Plan Part 2 2020 DM1, DM25, DM30, Newick Neighbourhood Plan EN1
- **Main issues:** character and appearance
- **Tags:** tier-2, garden-infill, no-framework-cited, small-scheme, plan-led

## Summary
A single dwelling in a side-garden gap on the rural-fringe edge of Newick was dismissed as cramped and harmful to the verdant, open transition to the countryside. The decision was issued on the Framework's publication day and does not mention the Framework at all. It is a plain s38(6) decision.

## What made the difference
The gap "allows for views towards the countryside … and contributes to the rural fringe character" (DL ¶7), and the benefits of one dwelling were "limited" (DL ¶14). This is a useful reminder that some decisions of 17 August 2026 contain no Framework engagement whatever, and that no L2(1)(d) garden-infill argument was raised.

## Policy findings
- **Lewes LPP2 DM25: conflict.** cramped two-storey dwelling closes a gap giving views to countryside at the rural fringe (DL 7-9, 13)
- **HO7: benefit (limited weight).** one windfall dwelling in a sustainable location; benefits limited (DL 14) — Framework not cited

## Key facts
- Gap between 99 and 101 gives views to open countryside on the rural-fringe south side of the road
- Lapsed permission LW/22/0300 retained a larger gap and was not comparable

## Sources
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/published-document/554635bb-ba7e-439c-ace7-92dac2381c84
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/comment-planning-appeal/appeals/6008050

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