# 8 High Street, Mayfield (listed building consent - shopfront roller shutter)

- **Decision:** dismissed, 17 September 2026
- **Decided by:** Planning Inspector: A James
- **Authority:** Wealden (South East)
- **Appeal reference:** 6010767
- **Application reference:** WD/2025/2299/LB
- **Procedure:** written-representations
- **Development:** Listed building consent for replacement shopfront with external roller shutter and shutter box
- **Site context:** inside-settlement, conservation-area, listed-building-setting
- **Green Belt:** no
- **Framework applied:** August 2026 NPPF
- **Determinative policies:** HE6
- **Development plan policies:** Wealden Local Plan 1998 saved EN1, EN19, EN27
- **Main issues:** special interest of listed building
- **Tags:** tier-2, listed-building-consent, heritage-harm-decisive, shopfront, parties-consulted-on-2026-framework

## Summary
The listed building consent half of the Mayfield roller-shutter appeals (see PINS-6010765). Dismissed. The shutter and box would harm the special interest of the Grade II 18th-century terrace. Reversibility "does not overcome the harm that would occur while it is in place" (DL ¶19).

## What made the difference
Same as the planning appeal: the security need was unevidenced, and less intrusive alternatives had not been ruled out (DL ¶23).

## Policy findings
- **HE6: harm (considerable weight).** utilitarian shutter and permanent box harm the special interest of the Grade II building; reversibility given limited weight (DL 15-23)

## Key facts
- Same decision letter as PINS-6010765 (Appeal B, s20 LBC appeal)

## Sources
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/comment-planning-appeal/appeals/6010767
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/published-document/90eac59b-b979-4dec-9fa6-f5b64143900a

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