Planning appeal decision
4 Over Mereway, Willingham, Cambridge, CB24 5AE
Planning appeal 3296246 at 4 Over Mereway, Willingham, Cambridge, CB24 5AE (South Cambridgeshire District Council) was dismissed on 19 October 2023 by Inspector Hartley D, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the Council's refusal to issue a certificate of lawfulness was well-founded, turning on whether the appellant can demonstrate on the balance of probabilities that the land can lawfully be used as a domestic garden and that the mobile home on the land can lawfully be used as ancillary accommodation to Blackberry Barn.
use of the land as a domestic garden and use of the mobile home on the land as ancillary accommodation to Blackberry Barn
- Appeal type
- ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- other · Change of use
- Inspector
- Hartley D
- Postcode
- CN24 5AE
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the Council's refusal to issue a certificate of lawfulness was well-founded, turning on whether the appellant can demonstrate on the balance of probabilities that the land can lawfully be used as a domestic garden and that the mobile home on the land can lawfully be used as ancillary accommodation to Blackberry Barn
What decided it
The appellant failed to provide sufficiently precise and unambiguous evidence to demonstrate on the balance of probability either ten years continuous use of the land as a domestic garden or that the mobile home fell within the curtilage of Blackberry Barn as ancillary accommodation.
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