# 8 High Street, Mayfield (planning - shopfront roller shutter)

- **Decision:** dismissed, 17 September 2026
- **Decided by:** Planning Inspector: A James
- **Authority:** Wealden (South East)
- **Appeal reference:** 6010765
- **Application reference:** WD/2025/2300/F
- **Procedure:** written-representations
- **Development:** Replacement shopfront with external roller shutter and shutter box on a Grade II listed building
- **Site context:** inside-settlement, conservation-area, listed-building-setting
- **Green Belt:** no
- **Framework applied:** August 2026 NPPF
- **Determinative policies:** HE6, S4(1)
- **Development plan policies:** Wealden Local Plan 1998 saved EN1, EN19, EN27, Wealden Core Strategy 2013 WCS14
- **Main issues:** listed building, conservation area, setting
- **Tags:** tier-2, s4-within-settlement, s4-substantially-outweighed, heritage-harm-decisive, conservation-area, shopfront, parties-consulted-on-2026-framework

## Summary
An external roller shutter and box on a replacement shopfront to a Grade II listed building on Mayfield's historic High Street. Appeal A (planning) dismissed alongside the LBC appeal. The heritage harm was low-end less than substantial but of considerable weight. The security justification was unevidenced, so under S4 the limited public benefits were substantially outweighed (DL ¶20-25).

## What made the difference
There was no evidence of local crime and no evidence that an internal or open-mesh shutter would be inadequate, so there was no "clear and convincing justification" (DL ¶23). The extant consent for the shopfront without a shutter narrowed the case to the shutter alone.

## Policy findings
- **HE6: harm (considerable weight).** lower end of less than substantial harm to the Grade II building, Mayfield CA and setting of Grade I/II* buildings; no evidence of crime or that less intrusive security would not work (DL 15-23)
- **S4(1): fail.** limited public benefits substantially outweighed (DL 24-25)

## Key facts
- Extant consent for the same shopfront without the shutter; the appeal turned only on the shutter
- Single decision letter covers the planning appeal (6010765) and the linked listed building consent appeal (6010767)

## Sources
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/comment-planning-appeal/appeals/6010765
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/published-document/f57474f3-5d7c-4578-aad1-fbecdfd218f5

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