Nuts Landing Newmans Lane, West Moors, Ferndown, BH22 0LW

Planning appeal 3288252 at Nuts Landing Newmans Lane, West Moors, Ferndown, BH22 0LW (East Dorset District Council *) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 22 November 2023 by Inspector Moss J, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Ground (b): whether the matters alleged in the notice have occurred, in particular whether the unit on the land is a caravan or a building and whether there has been a material change of use of the land.

Material change of use of open land for permanent residential purposes (human habitation), including stationing of a static caravan together with decking, hard surfacing for parking of vehicles, and a garden with domestic paraphernalia

Authority: East Dorset District Council *
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Inquiry
Development: residential · Change of use
Inspector: Moss J
Postcode: BH22 0LW

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Ground (b): whether the matters alleged in the notice have occurred, in particular whether the unit on the land is a caravan or a building and whether there has been a material change of use of the land
Ground (d): whether, at the date the notice was issued, enforcement action was time-barred in respect of the breach of planning control as corrected

What decided it

The Inspector's finding that the unit was, as a matter of fact and degree, an immune building (not a mobile caravan) whose change of use to a dwellinghouse and associated operational development had occurred and continued unchallenged for more than four years before the notice was issued.

What the Inspector cited

Judgments: Cardiff Rating Authority v Guest Keen Baldwin's Iron and Steel Co Ltd [1949] 1QB 385; Skerritts of Nottingham Ltd v SSETR (No.2) [2000] 2 PLR 102

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