®Planning appeal decision
Summer House, Land to the south of 44 The Cliff, BRIGHTON, BN2 5RE
as an independent single dwellinghouse (C3)
- Authority
- Brighton and Hove City Council
- Appeal type
- ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Jones L
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the Council's decision to refuse a certificate of lawful use or development was well-founded, specifically whether the appellant can show on the balance of probabilities that the appeal building has been in use as an independent single dwellinghouse (Class C3) for a substantially uninterrupted period of four years commencing on or before 16 September 2020
What decided it
The inconsistencies between the appellant's earlier statements to the Council about the summer house's use and the current claim of independent residential use, combined with the ambiguity in the tenancy agreements regarding exclusive occupation and the lack of sufficiently precise evidence of continuous occupation, meant the appellant could not demonstrate on the balance of probabilities that the building had been used as an independent single dwellinghouse for the required four-year period.
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