Planning appeal decision
3 Stone Cottages, Cockfield, Bury St. Edmunds, IP30 0JJ
Planning appeal 3291449 at 3 Stone Cottages, Cockfield, Bury St. Edmunds, IP30 0JJ (Babergh District Council) was dismissed on 27 September 2023 by Inspector Orr H, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the Council's decision to refuse the LDC application was well founded or not, based on the available evidence.
Use of the building known as 3 Stone Cottages (the Summerhouse) as a separate dwelling house
- Authority
- Babergh District Council
- Appeal type
- ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Orr H
- Postcode
- IP30 0JJ
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the Council's decision to refuse the LDC application was well founded or not, based on the available evidence.
What decided it
The appellant failed to demonstrate, on the balance of probability, that the building had been used as a separate dwellinghouse rather than remaining ancillary to No 2 Stone Cottages throughout the relevant period.
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