1 Pinewood Close, ROMSEY, Hampshire, SO51 7TN

without planning permission the making of a material change in use in respect of that part of the land shown cross- hatched red on an attached plan to use for residential purposes incidental to the enjoyment of the dwelling at No 1 Pinewood Close

Authority: Test Valley Borough Council
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: other · Change of use
Inspector: Hawkins S

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether a material change of use of the strip to residential purposes incidental to the enjoyment of the dwelling has occurred as a matter of fact

What decided it

The strip remained physically and functionally separate from the dwelling and its gardens, with no direct access and no significant difference in activity or management compared to its previous use as roadside open space, such that it did not form part of the same planning unit and no material change of use to residential purposes had occurred.

Judgments cited: Burdle and Williams v SSE and New Forest DC [1972] 1 WLR 1207

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