Bunkers Hill Farm, Bunkers Hill, Laughton, Gainsborough, DN21 3EE

notification for prior approval for change of use from agricultural building to dwellinghouse

Authority: West Lindsey District Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Change of use
Inspector: Walker R

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

whether the proposal satisfies the requirements of the General Permitted Development (England) Order 2015 with regard to being permitted development for a change of use from an agricultural building to a dwellinghouse, having particular regard to the requirements of Class Q.1(i)
if so, whether the location of the agricultural building makes it impractical or undesirable for it to be used as a dwellinghouse in terms of its effect on the living conditions of future occupiers of the proposed dwellinghouse, having particular regard to noise and dust

What decided it

The location of the agricultural building within an active farmyard with cereal storage barns generating loud constant noise would make it undesirable for use as a dwellinghouse due to unacceptable living conditions for future occupiers.

Framework references: 130

Judgments cited: Hibbitt and another v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Rushcliffe Borough Council [2016] EWHC 2853 (Admin)

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