Planning appeal decision
Kerris Vale, Kerriers Road, Inches, Bodmin, Cornwall, PL30 5LR
Planning appeal 3304612 at Kerris Vale, Kerriers Road, Inches, Bodmin, Cornwall, PL30 5LR (Cornwall Council) was allowed on 2 March 2023 by Inspector Blackwell J, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether condition 5 of the Planning Permission remains necessary, enforceable and reasonable, having regard to the development plan, the need for rural worker dwellings in the local area and other material considerations.
erection of agricultural dwelling without complying with a condition attached to planning permission Ref 6/87/0720/OOP, dated 6 July 1987
- Authority
- Cornwall Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Blackwell J
- Postcode
- PL30 5LR
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether condition 5 of the Planning Permission remains necessary, enforceable and reasonable, having regard to the development plan, the need for rural worker dwellings in the local area and other material considerations.
What decided it
Condition 5 no longer met the tests of necessity and enforceability, given the effect of the extant Certificate of Lawfulness and the improbability of the condition ever biting back.
No general planning balance was undertaken; the appeal turned solely on whether condition 5 met the statutory tests of necessity, enforceability and reasonableness for planning conditions, which the Inspector found it failed.
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy CP7
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 80
- Judgments
- Freddie Reid v SSLUHC [2022] EWHC 3116 (Admin)
How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.
See how each was appliedThe decision letter
Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.
With an account
What an account adds to this decision


More decisions in Cornwall
The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2023
- Dismissed29 October 20266011753London Inn Apartments, 34 Fore Street, Redruth, TR15 2AE
- Dismissed29 October 20266008546Land South of 51 Polisken Way, Polisken Way, St Erme, TR4 9RG
- Allowed29 October 20266005388Springlily, Steppy Downs Road, St Erth Praze, TR27 6EE
- Allowed28 October 20266006769Wayside Barn, Field Opposite Lower Reen Farm, Reen, Perranporth, TR6 0AL
- Dismissed23 October 2026601080025 Cliff Street, Mevagissey, PL26 6QJ
The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.
®