®Planning appeal decision
Land at Waterhouse Farm, Runnon Moor Lane, Hatherleigh, Okehampton, Devon, EX20 3PL
Planning appeal 3314436 at Land at Waterhouse Farm, Runnon Moor Lane, Hatherleigh, Okehampton, Devon, EX20 3PL (West Devon Borough Council) was dismissed on 26 September 2024 by Inspector Jarratt P, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the matters alleged relate to operational development involving construction of a building more than four years prior to service of the notice or whether the development represents a change of use of land for residential purposes which occurred less than ten years prior to the notice.
without planning permission, the material change of use of the land, from use for agricultural to a mixed use of agricultural and for the siting of a mobile home for residential purposes, together with the erection of a single story timber lean- to and timber shed (shown in the approximate position marked with an X on the plan and which are shown in photographs 1, 2, 3 and 4 annexed to the notice), which are integral to and facilitate the unauthorised material change of use of the land; and the storage of domestic paraphernalia as shown in photographs 1 and 2 annexed to the notice
- Authority
- West Devon Borough Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Jarratt P
- Postcode
- EX20 3PL
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the matters alleged relate to operational development involving construction of a building more than four years prior to service of the notice or whether the development represents a change of use of land for residential purposes which occurred less than ten years prior to the notice
What decided it
The material change of use occurred when the mobile home was placed on the land for residential purposes in October 2017, which was less than ten years before the enforcement notice was issued in December 2022, placing it outside the immunity period.
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