®Planning appeal decision
Devils Elbow Farm Hillend, Locking, WESTON-SUPER-MARE, BS24 8PG
without planning permission, the material change of use of the land from a mixed agricultural, equestrian use to a mixed agricultural, equestrian and the siting of a caravan for residential use (edged red on the attached plan and excluding the area coloured blue)
- Authority
- North Somerset Council
- Appeal type
- ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Harwood A
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The main issue is whether the Council's decision to refuse the LDC was well founded taking account of the information that has been submitted.
- Whether the enforcement notices correctly describe the alleged breach of planning control and the planning unit, and if not, whether it would cause injustice to correct them under section 176(1)(a) and (b).
What decided it
The appellant's evidence for continuity of the claimed uses over the required ten-year period was found unreliable and inconsistent with contemporaneous documentation, while the enforcement notices were found to misdescribe the true single mixed-use planning unit and could not be corrected without causing injustice.
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