Lower House Farm, Blue Lane, Kilcot, Gloucestershire, GL18 1NG

Planning appeal 3322509 at Lower House Farm, Blue Lane, Kilcot, Gloucestershire, GL18 1NG (Forest of Dean District Council) was dismissed on 1 February 2024 by Inspector Conde L, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the proposal would be permitted under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended), specifically: (1) whether the required building operations are to the extent reasonably necessary to carry out the conversion of the building; and (2) whether the location or siting of the building would make it otherwise impractical or undesirable for the building to change from agricultural use to a use falling within Class C3.

Change of use and conversion of an existing agricultural building to two (large) residential dwellings (C3) under the provisions of Class Q of the General Permitted Development Order

Authority: Forest of Dean District Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Change of use
Inspector: Conde L
Postcode: GL18 1NG

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the proposal would be permitted under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended), specifically: (1) whether the required building operations are to the extent reasonably necessary to carry out the conversion of the building; and (2) whether the location or siting of the building would make it otherwise impractical or undesirable for the building to change from agricultural use to a use falling within Class C3

What decided it

The location and siting of the proposed dwellings in very close proximity to adjacent farm buildings whose future use could not be controlled would make the development impractical and undesirable for residential use, thereby failing to satisfy the requirements of Class Q.2(1)(e) of the GPDO.

The decision letter

Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

17 other decided appeals within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision

An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter — Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.

Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app — Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.

Start your free trial

More decisions in Forest of Dean

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2024

Allowed2 July 20266003596
The Laurels Shop, A4136, Staunton (Coleford), GL16 8PA
Allowed19 May 20266002462
Land at Moat Farm, Newent, GL181JG
Dismissed13 March 20266000913
Land Adjacent To The Kings Head Public House, Birdwood, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL19 3EF
Dismissed21 August 20253361652
Eastwood Lodge Farm, The Chase, Woolaston, Lydney, GL15 6PT
Allowed20 August 20253363981
Land North East of Grove Lane , Lydney, Gloucestershire

The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.