Planning appeal decision
The Red House Also Known As "the White Cottage", Botley Road, Shedfield, Southampton, Hampshire, SO32 2HN
Planning appeal 3300180 at The Red House Also Known As "the White Cottage", Botley Road, Shedfield, Southampton, Hampshire, SO32 2HN (Winchester City Council) was allowed in part (a split decision) on 1 March 2023 by Inspector Shields T, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the requirements of the enforcement notice exceed what is necessary to remedy the breach of planning control.
without planning permission, the material change of use of the building shown hatched green on the attached plan B to use as a single dwelling house
- Authority
- Winchester City Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Shields T
- Postcode
- SO32 2HN
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the requirements of the enforcement notice exceed what is necessary to remedy the breach of planning control
What decided it
The outbuilding was being used as a separate independent dwellinghouse rather than as ancillary accommodation integral to the primary residential use of the Red House, constituting a material change of use requiring planning permission.
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