Planning appeal decision
Sycamore Farm Stidcott, Tytherington, Wotton-Under-Edge, GL12 8QD
Planning appeal 3262677 at Sycamore Farm Stidcott, Tytherington, Wotton-Under-Edge, GL12 8QD (South Gloucestershire Council) was dismissed on 12 August 2021 by Inspector Curnow R, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the unit is a mobile structure involving a use of land in permanent residential use, or whether operational development has occurred such that the unit now constitutes a building used as a dwelling within the definition of a dwelling house for the purposes of planning law.
Residential dwelling
- Authority
- South Gloucestershire Council
- Appeal type
- ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Curnow R
- Postcode
- GL12 8QD
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the unit is a mobile structure involving a use of land in permanent residential use, or whether operational development has occurred such that the unit now constitutes a building used as a dwelling within the definition of a dwelling house for the purposes of planning law
What decided it
The porch/utility extension was found to be a structurally independent structure supported by its own concrete pad rather than integral to the caravan, meaning the unit retained all essential characteristics of a caravan and did not constitute a building.
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