Land Adjacent to Baugh Farm, Fouracre Crescent, Downend, Bristol, BS16 6PX

Planning appeal 3262533 at Land Adjacent to Baugh Farm, Fouracre Crescent, Downend, Bristol, BS16 6PX (South Gloucestershire Council) was allowed in part (a split decision) on 29 October 2021 by Inspector Hanson S, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the matters alleged in the enforcement notice have occurred as a matter of fact (ground b).

Without planning permission, the change of use of agricultural land to a mixed use comprising: agriculture, allotments, storage (including, but not limited to, vehicles and waste materials), commercial pet exercising, residential (through the residential use of caravans or other vehicles adapted for human habitation) and leisure/amenity uses; and the creation of hardstanding to facilitate the use by the importation and the laying of crushed stone/gravel

Authority: South Gloucestershire Council
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: other · Change of use
Inspector: Hanson S

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the matters alleged in the enforcement notice have occurred as a matter of fact (ground b)
Whether those matters, if they occurred, constitute a breach of planning control (ground c)
Whether the requirements of the notice exceed what is necessary to remedy the breach (ground f)
Whether the period specified in the notice is reasonable (ground g)

What decided it

The Inspector's observation of domestic paraphernalia, leisure items, and evidence of non-agricultural use on the site demonstrated a material change of use from agriculture, which required enforcement action to remedy.

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