Planning appeal decision
Littleworth Lane, Monk Bretton, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S71 2JR
Planning appeal 3281077 at Littleworth Lane, Monk Bretton, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S71 2JR (Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 4 January 2022 by Inspector Madge M, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the material change of use of land for the siting of a caravan for human habitation has occurred.
without planning permission: the material change of use of land for the siting of a caravan for human habitation
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- caravan-gypsy · Change of use
- Inspector
- Madge M
- Postcode
- S71 2JR
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the material change of use of land for the siting of a caravan for human habitation has occurred
What decided it
The appellants' evidence that they were living and working abroad at the time the notice was issued, coupled with the absence of any substantiated documentary evidence from the Council of residential occupation of the caravan, established on the balance of probability that the material change of use had not occurred.
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