®Planning appeal decision
Dismissed1 February 20243322509
Lower House Farm, Blue Lane, Kilcot, Gloucestershire, GL18 1NG
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
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 main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.