Goodamoor Farm, Ledgate Lane, Sparkwell, Plymouth, Devon, PL7 5FB

without planning permission, the material change of use of the Building from agricultural use to a mixed residential and agricultural use

Authority: South Hams District Council
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Inquiry
Development: residential · Change of use
Inspector: Madge M

What decided it

The finding that Goodamoor Farm (including the Mezzanine Area) constituted a single planning unit in mixed use, meaning the residential element could not be a separate lawful dwellinghouse and had not achieved immunity through time.

the public interest in enabling the timely resumption of tungsten extraction at Hemerdon Mine outweighed the appellants' personal circumstances in seeking a 12-month rather than 3-month compliance period

Judgments cited: Burdle v SSE [1972] 1 WLR 1207 (Div Court); Wealden DC v SSE [1983] JPL 234; Ahmed v SSCLG [2014] 2 EGLR 197; SSETR v Wyatt Brothers (Oxford) Ltd [2001] EWCA Civ 1560; Kwik Save Discount Group Ltd v SSW; Kwik Save Discount Group Ltd v SSE (1981) 42 P. & C.R. 166

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