Planning appeal decision
Grange Farm, Catworth, Huntingdon, PE28 0PH
Planning appeal 3309257 at Grange Farm, Catworth, Huntingdon, PE28 0PH (Huntingdonshire District Council) was allowed on 7 July 2023 by Inspector Dade E, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the proposal would be permitted development under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of the GPDO 2015, with particular regard to whether the building operations involved would be to an extent reasonably necessary for the building to function as dwellinghouses, and whether the information provided demonstrates the building is capable of conversion.
change of use and conversion of an agricultural building and its curtilage to two small dwellings
- Authority
- Huntingdonshire District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Dade E
- Postcode
- PE28 0PH
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal would be permitted development under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of the GPDO 2015, with particular regard to whether the building operations involved would be to an extent reasonably necessary for the building to function as dwellinghouses, and whether the information provided demonstrates the building is capable of conversion
What decided it
The building was demonstrated to be structurally capable of conversion with the proposed building operations falling within the scope of works reasonably necessary under Class Q of the GPDO 2015, and the extent of operations would not exceed what is permitted or amount to a rebuild.
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