Planning appeal decision
Wendon Cottage, Woolsery, Bideford, EX39 5QU
Planning appeal 3315033 at Wendon Cottage, Woolsery, Bideford, EX39 5QU (Torridge District Council) was allowed on 19 April 2024 by Inspector Whitfield J, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the LPA's decision to refuse the LDC application was well-founded.
a lawful commencement of planning permission ref: 1/0096/2009/FUL has been made within 3 years of the permission being granted
- Authority
- Torridge District Council
- Appeal type
- ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- leisure-sport · Change of use
- Inspector
- Whitfield J
- Postcode
- EX39 5QU
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the LPA's decision to refuse the LDC application was well-founded
What decided it
The development was lawfully commenced within the three-year deadline by material operations in 2011, the 2009 permission remained extant, and the proposed conversion to a holiday let would therefore have been lawful at the date of the LDC application because no enforcement action could have been taken.
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