Planning appeal decision
Wooden Top Farm West Coker Hill, West Coker, Yeovil, BA22 9DG
Planning appeal 3283979 at Wooden Top Farm West Coker Hill, West Coker, Yeovil, BA22 9DG (South Somerset District Council *) was dismissed on 23 February 2022 by Inspector O'Connor H, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the proposal would constitute permitted development under Article 3 and Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015, as amended.
the conversion of an agricultural building into a larger dwellinghouse
- Authority
- South Somerset District Council *
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- O'Connor H
- Postcode
- BA22 9DG
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal would constitute permitted development under Article 3 and Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015, as amended
What decided it
Development under Part 6 of the Order was carried out on the established agricultural unit since 20 March 2013, and the subsequent removal of those structures does not negate this fact or restore Class Q permitted development rights.
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