®Planning appeal decision
111 Upper Bristol Road, WESTON-SUPER-MARE, BS22 8DN
the change of use of the current office, workshop and small toilet back to its original purpose of sitting room and dining room for the main dwelling. No additional dwelling will be created, the completed conversion will result in the existing two bedroom maisonette returning to being a three bedroom terraced house. Doorways already exist from when it was converted into the shop / office, they will simply be unblocked and have new doors fitted. No major alterations will ta ke place to the building other than the blocking of the current office doorway. Visually the street scene will be little altered, but the development will result in the property being brought in to the available rental properties for local use
- Authority
- North Somerset Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Pickernell E
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the proposal would be permitted development under Class MA of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015
- the impacts of noise from commercial premises on the intended occupiers of the development
What decided it
The blocking up of the front office door as indicated on the drawings would constitute operational development, which is not permitted by Class MA of the GPDO.
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