Loddon Court, Lambs Lane, Swallowfield, RG7 1JE

Planning appeal 3271861 at Loddon Court, Lambs Lane, Swallowfield, RG7 1JE (Wokingham Borough Council) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 5 May 2022 by Inspector Graham J, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether at the date of the LDC application the caravan was being used for purposes ancillary to the residential use of the main house at Loddon Court, in which case there would have been no material change of use requiring planning permission, or whether the caravan was instead being used as a self-contained dwelling, which would amount to a material change of use requiring planning permission.

without planning permission, the material change of use of the land to a mixed use of dwellinghouse and the siting of a caravan (in the approximately [sic] position outlined in blue on the attached plan) for independent human habitation

Authority: Wokingham Borough Council
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Inquiry
Development: residential · Change of use
Inspector: Graham J
Postcode: RG7 1JE

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether at the date of the LDC application the caravan was being used for purposes ancillary to the residential use of the main house at Loddon Court, in which case there would have been no material change of use requiring planning permission, or whether the caravan was instead being used as a self-contained dwelling, which would amount to a material change of use requiring planning permission
Whether the matters alleged in the enforcement notice (material change of use to a mixed use of dwellinghouse and siting of a caravan for independent human habitation) had occurred

What decided it

The Inspector's finding, on the balance of probabilities from the totality of the evidence, that the caravan was used as part of the household's overall living accommodation ancillary to the main dwelling rather than as an independent self-contained dwelling.

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