Planning appeal decision
Sun Valley Holiday Park, Pentewan, St. Austell, PL26 6DJ
Planning appeal 3234165 at Sun Valley Holiday Park, Pentewan, St. Austell, PL26 6DJ (Cornwall Council) was allowed on 10 September 2021 by Inspector Dudley G, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The main issue in this case relates to whether the decision to refuse the LDC was well founded and, in particular, to which planning permission controls the use at the site, and whether any subsequent permissions have an effect on that permission.
The siting of caravans for the purposes of human habitation including as a person's sole or main place of residence
- Authority
- Cornwall Council
- Appeal type
- ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- caravan-gypsy · Minor traveller and caravan pitches
- Inspector
- Dudley G
- Postcode
- PL26 6DJ
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The main issue in this case relates to whether the decision to refuse the LDC was well founded and, in particular, to which planning permission controls the use at the site, and whether any subsequent permissions have an effect on that permission.
What decided it
Permission C/SAU/61/16671 was found to be a standalone, unconditional base permission for the site, unconnected on its face to the holiday-use restricting condition 4 of the earlier permission 16393.
What the Inspector cited
- Judgments
- Kemball v SSCLG [2015] EWHC 3338 (Admin); University of Leicester v SSCLG & Oadby & Wigston BC [2016] EWHC 476 (Admin); Lambeth LBC v SSCLG and Aberdeen Asset Management Nottinghamshire & HHGL Ltd [2019] UKSC33; Newbury DC v SoS for the Environment [1981] AC 578 (1980)
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.
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