®Planning appeal decision
Loddon Court, Lambs Lane, Swallowfield, RG7 1JE
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
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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