®Planning appeal decision
Notice varied and upheld11 May 20223291490
Land at Alston Cottage, Buckland Monachorum, PL20 7LN
a material change of use of the Land without planning permission from agriculture/equestrian to a mixed use of agriculture/equestrian and residential with the siting of polytunnels
- Authority
- West Devon Borough Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Jarratt P
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the residential use of the land had become established more than ten years before the enforcement notice was issued, such that enforcement action was time-barred under section 171B(3) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990
- Whether planning permission should be granted for the material change of use to mixed agricultural/equestrian and residential use
What decided it
The appellant failed to establish that the residential use had become lawful through the passage of time, and the development is contrary to local and national planning policies protecting the AONB and National Park setting.
Framework references: 60, 80, 176
Plan policies cited: Policy TTV26
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