Land at Chloes Cottage, Highlands Avenue, Barkham, RG41 4SP

Planning appeal 3309531 at Land at Chloes Cottage, Highlands Avenue, Barkham, RG41 4SP (Wokingham Borough Council) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 12 September 2024 by Inspector Hand S, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the mobile home has become a building and thus immune from enforcement under the 4-year period rather than the 10-year period for other structures.

without planning permission, the material change of use of the Land to use for residential purposes comprising of the stationing of a mobile home together with its brick skirt and steps (the approximate location of which is shown marked A on the attached plan), the erection of an ancillary outbuilding (the approximate location of which is shown marked B on the attached plan), hardstanding (the approximate location of which is shown marked C on the attached plan) and fencing (the approximate location of which is shown marked D on the attached plan)

Authority: Wokingham Borough Council
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Change of use
Inspector: Hand S
Postcode: RG41 4SP

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the mobile home has become a building and thus immune from enforcement under the 4-year period rather than the 10-year period for other structures

What decided it

The mobile home had been permanently transformed into a building through reconstruction, welding to a metal frame concreted into the ground, and internal finishing, making it no longer a moveable structure and thus immune from enforcement after 4 years.

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