White Lodge Farm, Blackburn Road, Edgeworth, BOLTON, BL7 0PU

the conversion of garage to garden room, construction of garage to side and driveway to serve new garage using existing access onto Blackburn Road

Authority: Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council
Appeal type: ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
Procedure: Hearing
Development: residential · Householder developments
Inspector: Walker A

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

The main issue is whether the Council's decision to refuse to grant an LDC is well-founded.

What decided it

The land on which the proposed garage and driveway would be sited was found to fall within the curtilage of the dwellinghouse, making the development permitted development under Class A of the GPDO.

Judgments cited: Burford v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government & Anor [2017] EWHC 1493; Dyer v Dorset County Council [1988]; Hiley v Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities [2022] EWHC 1289 (Admin); R (Hampshire County Council) v Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs [2022] QB 103; Methuen-Campbell v Walters [1979] 1 QB 525

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