Planning appeal decision
Hop Yard Farm New Road, Wotton-Under-Edge, GL12 8JP
Planning appeal 3317277 at Hop Yard Farm New Road, Wotton-Under-Edge, GL12 8JP (Stroud District Council) was dismissed on 14 August 2023 by Inspector Marigold O, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the proposal complies with the description of permitted development under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of the GPDO with regard to its definitions of an 'agricultural building' and 'established agricultural unit'.
conversion of barn into three-bedroom detached dwelling
- Authority
- Stroud District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Marigold O
- Postcode
- GL12 8JP
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal complies with the description of permitted development under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of the GPDO with regard to its definitions of an 'agricultural building' and 'established agricultural unit'
- Whether the proposal would exceed the external dimensions of the existing building
What decided it
The proposal would result in the external dimensions of the building being exceeded through the addition of bird and bat boxes and proposed cladding, failing to comply with GPDO Class Q paragraph Q.1(h).
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