Planning appeal decision
Well Cottage, Chalgrave, Dunstable, LU5 6JL
Planning appeal 3325457 at Well Cottage, Chalgrave, Dunstable, LU5 6JL (Central Bedfordshire) was dismissed on 8 March 2024 by Inspector Rawle S, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the proposed development would constitute permitted development in respect of Class Q(a) and Q(b) of Schedule 2, Part 3 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended).
prior approval of change of use of agricultural building to dwelling: conversion of barns to 4 dwelling houses
- Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Rawle S
- Postcode
- LU5 6JL
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposed development would constitute permitted development in respect of Class Q(a) and Q(b) of Schedule 2, Part 3 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended)
What decided it
The appellant failed to provide sufficient evidence that the three buildings on the appeal site were being used solely for agricultural use as part of an established agricultural unit on 20 March 2013, which is a mandatory prerequisite for Class Q permitted development under the GPDO.
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