Stour Hill Caravan Park, West Stour, SP8 5SE

the proposed use of land for the siting of caravans for the purposes of human habitation

Authority: Dorset
Appeal type: ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
Procedure: Hearing
Development: caravan-gypsy · Major traveller and caravan pitches
Inspector: Moore D

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

I must decide whether the use of the land for the siting of caravans for human habitation would be lawful if it were instituted on the date of the application.
The main issue is whether the Council's refusal to grant an LDC was well-founded.

What decided it

The finding that the 1988 permission did not incorporate the lapsed 1982 permission's plan (ref 3/G237), so the proposed caravan use fell within the lawful scope of the implemented 1988 permission.

Judgments cited: Trump International Golf Club Scotland Ltd v the Scottish Ministers [2015] UKSC 74; Lambeth LBC v SSCLG [2019] UKSC 33; R v Ashford Borough Council ex parte Shepway DC [1998] EWHC Admin 488; Slough Borough Council v SSE (1995) JPL 1128; Wilson v West Sussex County Council [1963] 2 QB 764; Miller-Mead v MHLG [1963] 2 QB 196; Slough Estates v Slough BC [1969] 21 P and CR 573; Staffordshire Moorlands District Council v Cartwright (1992) JPL 138 at 139; Barnett v SSCLG [2009] EWCA Civ 476; Hillside Parks Ltd v Snowdonia National Park Authority [2022] UKSC 30

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