Acorn Farm, Village Road, Thorpe, Egham, TW20 8UG

Planning appeal 3317083 at Acorn Farm, Village Road, Thorpe, Egham, TW20 8UG (Runnymede Borough Council) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 9 January 2025 by Inspector Orr H, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the site comprises a single planning unit or two separate planning units, since this is key to determining whether the alleged material change of use has in fact occurred.

the unauthorised material change of use of the land to a caravan site including the siting of caravans and mobile homes for residential use

Authority: Runnymede Borough Council
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Inquiry
Development: caravan-gypsy · Minor traveller and caravan pitches
Inspector: Orr H
Postcode: TW20 8UG

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the site comprises a single planning unit or two separate planning units, since this is key to determining whether the alleged material change of use has in fact occurred

What decided it

The finding that the whole of Acorn Farm constituted a single planning unit undermined the Council's premise that the alleged breach occurred on a separate, physically and functionally distinct planning unit, and the notice could not be corrected to allege intensification without causing injustice.

What the Inspector cited

Judgments: Burdle & Williams v SSE & New Forest DC [1972] 1 WLR 1207

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