Planning appeal decision
Bay Tree Stables, Dundridge Lane , Bishops Waltham , Southampton, SO32 1GD
Planning appeal 3317898 at Bay Tree Stables, Dundridge Lane , Bishops Waltham , Southampton, SO32 1GD (South Downs) was allowed on 26 November 2024 by Inspector Hand S, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the mobile home has been converted into a building (rather than remaining a caravan).
Building operations to convert caravan to a building and a change of use to single dwellinghouse
- Authority
- South Downs
- Appeal type
- ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Hand S
- Postcode
- SO32 1GD
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the mobile home has been converted into a building (rather than remaining a caravan)
- Whether there is continuous occupation for the required 4-year period prior to the application date
What decided it
The mobile home was fixed to the ground by concrete and therefore constituted a building subject to the 4-year enforcement timescale, and continuous occupation from before 28 April 2017 was established on the balance of probabilities.
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