Planning appeal decision
1, Harrow View Road, Ealing, London, W5 1NA
Planning appeal 3266891 at 1, Harrow View Road, Ealing, London, W5 1NA (London Borough of Ealing) was allowed on 4 February 2022 by Inspector Hocking P, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the Council's decision to refuse a certificate of lawfulness is well founded.
The siting of a mobile home (caravan) within the residential curtilage for purposes incidental to the use of the dwellinghouse
- Authority
- London Borough of Ealing
- Appeal type
- ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- other · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Hocking P
- Postcode
- W5 1NA
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the Council's decision to refuse a certificate of lawfulness is well founded
What decided it
The proposal met all three statutory tests for a caravan under the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 (size, construction, and mobility), and therefore did not constitute development requiring planning permission.
What the Inspector cited
- Judgments
- R (Save Woolley Valley Action Group Ltd) v Bath and North East Somerset Council [2012] EWHC 2161 (Admin)
How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.
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