Station Business Park, Main Road, Stickney, BOSTON, PE22 8EE

a workshop/storage building, associated hard standing and vehicular access

Authority: East Lindsey District Council
Appeal type: ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
Procedure: Hearing
Development: employment-industrial · Change of use
Inspector: Madge M

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

The main issue is whether the Council's decision to refuse to grant a Certificate of LDC is well-founded.

What decided it

The finding that the field was so intimately associated with the existing industrial building, through ownership, physical layout and functional (drainage/access) connection, that it formed part and parcel of the building's curtilage.

Judgments cited: Sinclair-Lockhart's Trustees v Central Land Board [1950] 1 P&CR 195; Methuan-Campbell v Walters [1979] 1 QB 525; Attorney General, ex r Sutcliffe v Calderdale Borough Council (1983) 46 P&CR 399; Skerritts of Nottingham Ltd v SSETR [2001] QB 59; Sumpton v London Borough of Greenwich [2007] EWHC 2776 (Admin); Hampshire CC & the Open Spaces Society & Others v SSEFRA & Blackbushe Airport Ltd [2020] EWHC 959 (Admin), [2021] EWCA 398, [2020] JPL 1359; Herbert Hiley v SSLUHC & East Lindsey District Council [2022] EWHC 1289 (Admin)

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