The Goose House, East Side of Pyebush Lane, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 2RX

Planning appeal 3272389 at The Goose House, East Side of Pyebush Lane, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 2RX (Buckinghamshire Council - South Bucks Area *) was allowed in part (a split decision) on 24 January 2025 by Inspector Whitfield J, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the appeal site has been used continuously for a period in excess of 10 years for the stationing of a caravan for residential purposes such that it is immune from enforcement action.

Without planning permission, a material change of use of the Land to residential, by reason of the stationing of two mobile homes (in the approximate position shown cross hatched in black on the Plan), and the carrying out of operational development to facilitate the aforesaid unauthorised material change of use comprising the construction of a concrete block plinth and installation of wooden decking between the mobile homes and erection of a wooden covered area

Authority: Buckinghamshire Council - South Bucks Area *
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Change of use
Inspector: Whitfield J
Postcode: HP9 2RX

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the appeal site has been used continuously for a period in excess of 10 years for the stationing of a caravan for residential purposes such that it is immune from enforcement action
Whether the requirements of the enforcement notice exceed what is necessary to remedy the breach of planning control

What decided it

The caravan was not present on the site during the 2012 planning officer's site visit, breaking the continuity required for the 10-year immunity period to run from before 16 December 2021.

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