Planning appeal decision
Goodamoor Farm, Ledgate Lane, Sparkwell, Plymouth, Devon, PL7 5FB
Planning appeal 3326128 at Goodamoor Farm, Ledgate Lane, Sparkwell, Plymouth, Devon, PL7 5FB (South Hams District Council) was allowed in part (a split decision) on 10 January 2024 by Inspector Madge M, following an inquiry.
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
- Postcode
- PL7 5FB
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
What the Inspector cited
- Judgments
- 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
How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.
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