Planning appeal decision
The Wad, Damery Lane, Woodford, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, GL13 9JR
Planning appeal 3271371 at The Wad, Damery Lane, Woodford, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, GL13 9JR (Stroud District Council) was allowed in part (a split decision) on 5 July 2021 by Inspector Bond V, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the requirements of the enforcement notice exceed what is necessary to remedy the breach of planning control (ground (f)).
Without planning permission, the erection of a single storey outbuilding within the curtilage of the property, adjacent to the principal property addressed at (2) above, shown edged in blue on the attached plan and deemed to be an annexe provision to the principal dwelling existing on the land
- Authority
- Stroud District Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Bond V
- Postcode
- GL13 9JR
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the requirements of the enforcement notice exceed what is necessary to remedy the breach of planning control (ground (f))
What decided it
Class E of the GPDO does not permit ancillary annexe-type accommodation as a primary residential use, and the GPDO does not grant retrospective permission for buildings that exceeded height limitations when originally constructed.
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