Building A, Meadow Farm, Beggar Hill, Fryering Ingatestone, Essex, CM4 0PG

Planning appeal 3302418 at Building A, Meadow Farm, Beggar Hill, Fryering Ingatestone, Essex, CM4 0PG (Brentwood Borough Council) was dismissed on 14 August 2025 by Inspector Ghafoor A, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the evidence demonstrates that Building A was physically converted into a dwellinghouse affording facilities for day-to-day domestic existence on or before the relevant date of 30 September 2017.

Retention of existing residential use at Building A

Authority: Brentwood Borough Council
Appeal type: ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Householder developments
Inspector: Ghafoor A
Postcode: CM4 0PG

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the evidence demonstrates that Building A was physically converted into a dwellinghouse affording facilities for day-to-day domestic existence on or before the relevant date of 30 September 2017
Whether the evidence demonstrates that Building A was occupied and used as a single dwellinghouse for a continuous period of four years prior to the date of the LDC application

What decided it

The appellant's evidence was insufficient in specificity and detail to demonstrate on the balance of probability that Building A had been physically converted into a dwellinghouse affording facilities for day-to-day domestic existence on or before the relevant date, and that it was occupied and used as a single dwellinghouse for the required continuous four-year period.

What the Inspector cited

Judgments: Gravesham BC v SSE and O'Brien [1983] JPL 306

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