Butlers Farm , Colne Road, BURES, Hamlet, Essex, CO8 5DN

the operations necessary to convert the barns into dwellings with the insertion of windows and doors. Both dwellings will be single storey as the council considered the insertion of a mezzanine floor over development and refused the previous applications

Authority: Braintree District Council
Appeal type: ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Householder developments
Inspector: Dyer S

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the proposal would be permitted development under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of the GPDO, with particular reference to the extent of the building operations, including changes in ground level, provision of adequate natural light in habitable rooms and the extent of the curtilage

What decided it

The removal of mezzanine floors from the earlier schemes and the reduction in the extent of glazing and building works meant the proposal fell within the permitted parameters of Class Q, being reasonably necessary for the buildings to function as dwellings.

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