Land at Westside, Chobham Road, Knaphill, Surrey, GU21 2TU

Prior Approval under Part 3, Class Q of the Town and County Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 for the conversion of Agricultural Building to create 1No 2 bedroom dwelling. (b) a change of use together with reasonably necessary building operations

Authority: Woking Borough Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector: Sutton A

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the proposal would be permitted development under Article 3(1), Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended), having regard to external dimensions of the existing building, agricultural use, and building operations reasonably necessary for the building to function as a dwellinghouse

What decided it

The proposal would result in the external dimensions of the building extending beyond the external dimensions of the existing building along the proposed front elevation, breaching Paragraph Q.1(h) of the GPDO.

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