Planning appeal decision
Barn at St Giles on the Heath, Launceston, PL15 9SL
Planning appeal 3312845 at Barn at St Giles on the Heath, Launceston, PL15 9SL (Torridge District Council) was dismissed on 2 November 2023 by Inspector Graham J, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether development was lawfully begun within the three-year time limit.
Conversion of barn to self-contained holiday unit
- Authority
- Torridge District Council
- Appeal type
- ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- leisure-sport · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Graham J
- Postcode
- PL15 9SL
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether development was lawfully begun within the three-year time limit
- Whether the permitted conversion could lawfully be carried out at the date of the LDC application given the structural condition of the barn
What decided it
The barn had been so damaged by Storm Eunice that insufficient original structure remained to permit a genuine conversion as opposed to reconstruction, placing the proposed works outside the scope of the 2016 Permission.
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