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

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

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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