Old House Farm, Sutton Lane, Cadeby, CV13 0AR

Authority: Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council
Appeal type: ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Householder developments
Inspector: Kean G

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the appeal site has been in use as a domestic garden incidental to the use of the dwelling for a continuous period of 10 years or more before the respective application dates

What decided it

The aerial photographs from 2014, 2015 and 2017 demonstrating that the appeal site remained part of the wider agricultural field area with inconsistent or absent boundary fencing, combined with the lack of precise and unambiguous testimony in the statutory declarations, meant the appellant failed to prove on the balance of probabilities that the land had been used as a domestic garden incidental to the dwelling for a continuous 10-year period.

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