®Planning appeal decision
Land at 78 Wiggenhall Road, WATFORD, WD18 0AL
Without planning permission, the material change of use of the residential property to a mixed use HMO and self- contained dwelling (sui generis). The erection of a rear single storey dwelling to the host dwellinghouse materially departs from the details approved under 19/00187/HPD for the erection of a single storey rear extension and facilitates the unauthorised material change of use of the property
- Authority
- Watford Borough Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Bond V
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the matters alleged in the enforcement notice had occurred as at the date the notice was issued (ground b)
- Whether the matters alleged represent a breach of planning control (ground c)
- Whether the rear extension room is in use as a separate self-contained dwelling house or as part of the HMO use
- Whether the property falls within use class C4 HMO
What decided it
The extension room lacks the facilities usually reasonably required for day-to-day private domestic existence and functions as part of the HMO through communal use of the main house facilities, meaning it is not a self-contained dwelling and the property remains lawfully in use class C4.
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