Planning appeal decision
Berrybrook Farm, Sedgehill, Shaftesbury, SP7 9JQ
Planning appeal 3323999 at Berrybrook Farm, Sedgehill, Shaftesbury, SP7 9JQ (Wiltshire Council) was allowed on 8 January 2024 by Inspector Marigold O, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the proposal complies with the description of permitted development under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of the GPDO, with regard to the building operations necessary for residential use.
a change of use of agricultural barn (barn F) to a dwellinghouse (Use Class C3) and for associated operational development
- Authority
- Wiltshire Council
- Appeal type
- other · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Unknown
- Inspector
- Marigold O
- Postcode
- SP7 9JQ
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the proposal complies with the description of permitted development under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of the GPDO, with regard to the building operations necessary for residential use
- the effect of the design and external appearance of the proposal
What decided it
The barn is capable of conversion to residential use without operations amounting to substantial rebuilding, and the design and external appearance would be acceptable in the context of the existing farm complex.
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