The Supreme Court has upheld a decision by the Court of Appeal against plans to build 521 homes in the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
Judgment was delivered by the Supreme Court on the 6th December in the case of Dover District Council (Appellant) v CPRE Kent (Respondent); CPRE Kent (Respondent) v China Gateway International Limited (Appellant)
The context is a proposal for major development to the west of Dover, on two sites referred to as Western Heights and Farthingloe. The latter is within the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Western Heights is a prominent hilltop overlooking Dover, dominated by a series of fortifications dating from the Napoleonic wars, including the so-called ‘Drop Redoubt’. The site is a scheduled monument. Farthingloe is in a long valley between the A20 and the B2001 to the west of Western Heights, and comprises 155 hectares of agricultural and scrubland.
The Supreme Court upheld a decision by the Court of Appeal against plans to build 521 homes in the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
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