®Planning appeal decision
Hillcrest , Stannerford Road, RYTON, NE40 3SN
the erection of two single storey buildings within curtilage of existing dwelling to be used as games room and garden store
- Authority
- Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council
- Appeal type
- ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Wharton T
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether or not the proposed development would have been lawful at the time of the LDC application, by virtue of the two proposed single storey outbuildings being within the curtilage of the dwelling house, 'Hillcrest'
What decided it
The appeal land, although lawfully used for residential purposes, lies outside the curtilage of the dwelling house because it is perceived as a large, separate, adjacent and open site physically and visually distinct from the main dwelling and its original rear garden, and therefore does not meet the dictionary definition of curtilage as 'a piece of ground attached to the dwelling house and forming one enclosure within it'.
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