Planning appeal decision
The Farthings, Gloucester Road, Castlemorton, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR13 6JB
Planning appeal 3278675 at The Farthings, Gloucester Road, Castlemorton, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR13 6JB (Malvern Hills District Council) was dismissed on 30 November 2021 by Inspector Thandi B, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the proposed development would be granted planning permission by Article 3(1) and Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015, with regard to Paragraph Q(a) whether the appeal site is an agricultural building and Q(b) building operations reasonably necessary to convert the building.
conversion of barn to single dwelling
- Authority
- Malvern Hills District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- Thandi B
- Postcode
- WR13 6JB
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposed development would be granted planning permission by Article 3(1) and Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015, with regard to Paragraph Q(a) whether the appeal site is an agricultural building and Q(b) building operations reasonably necessary to convert the building
What decided it
The lack of sufficient information in the structural survey to demonstrate that the building operations proposed would not go beyond those reasonably necessary for conversion to residential use under Q(b) of the GPDO.
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