Planning appeal decision
Ashbrook Stables, Main Road, Colden Common, Winchester, SO21 1TJ
Planning appeal 3294907 at Ashbrook Stables, Main Road, Colden Common, Winchester, SO21 1TJ (Winchester City Council) was dismissed on 11 August 2022 by Inspector Hocking P, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the Council's refusal to grant a certificate of lawfulness for the existing use was well founded.
Use of a building as a single, separate and independent dwellinghouse (Use Class C3), with associated vehicular access and domestic curtilage in excess of four years
- Authority
- Winchester City Council
- Appeal type
- ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Hocking P
- Postcode
- SO21 1TJ
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the Council's refusal to grant a certificate of lawfulness for the existing use was well founded
What decided it
The building was erected unlawfully and used as a dwelling from the outset, triggering the 10-year enforcement time limit under section 171B(3) rather than the 4-year test, which the appellant cannot satisfy.
The decision letter
Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.
With an account
What an account adds to this decision


More decisions in Winchester
The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2022
- Dismissed15 October 20266012051Cupressus, Durley Brook Road, Southampton, SO32 2AR
- Dismissed14 October 20266011078Oakridge, Biddenfield Lane, Shedfield, SO32 2HP
- Allowed10 August 20266005547Land at Lower Paddock, Bent Lane, Hambledon, PO7 4QP
- Dismissed3 August 202660042333, Farm Cottages, Knowle, PO17 5LZ
- Allowed29 July 2026600546362 Downs Road,, South Wonston,, Winchester, SO21 3EW
The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.
®