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Dismissed18 June 20213269394

The Black Barn Sits off Comhampton to the East of the A449, Between Crossway Green and Ombersley, Acton , Stourport-on-Severn, DY13 9TE

Planning appeal 3269394 at The Black Barn Sits off Comhampton to the East of the A449, Between Crossway Green and Ombersley, Acton , Stourport-on-Severn, DY13 9TE (Wychavon District Council) was dismissed on 18 June 2021 by Inspector Page L, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the barn was in agricultural use as part of an established agricultural unit on 20 March 2013 and whether this was its last beneficial use.

notification for prior approval for the proposed change of use of an agricultural building to a dwellinghouse and for building operations reasonably necessary for the conversion

Authority
Wychavon District Council
Appeal type
minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
residential · Change of use
Inspector
Page L
Postcode
DY13 9TE

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • whether the barn was in agricultural use as part of an established agricultural unit on 20 March 2013 and whether this was its last beneficial use
  • whether the building operations reasonably necessary to convert the building would amount to rebuilding

What decided it

The Inspector could not conclude with sufficient certainty on the balance of probabilities that the barn was in agricultural use as part of an established agricultural unit on 20 March 2013 and that this was its last beneficial use, due to significant doubt arising from the barn's characteristics consistent with equestrian use and the absence of tangible business documentation.

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