®Planning appeal decision
Derill to Pyworthy Road, Derill, Holsworthy, Devon, EX22 6YA
conversion of structurally sound agricultural barn to single dwelling. The building is accessed of a private agricultural track from the Derril to Pyworthy county highway. The architect designed scheme provides natural light to all habitable rooms in the proposed dwelling to meet building regulation requirements
- Authority
- Torridge District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Tucker A
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposed change of use constitutes permitted development under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of the GPDO, and if it does, whether the location or siting of the building makes it otherwise impractical or undesirable for the building to change from agricultural use to a dwelling
What decided it
The amount of structural work required—replacement of all walls and roof with only the steel frame remaining—means the proposal goes beyond what could reasonably be described as a conversion and therefore does not qualify as permitted development under Class Q of the GPDO.
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