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Allowed22 April 20243326331

Twenty Acres Farm, Riddings Lane, Dalbury Lees, Ashbourne, DE6 5BG

Planning appeal 3326331 at Twenty Acres Farm, Riddings Lane, Dalbury Lees, Ashbourne, DE6 5BG (Amber Valley Borough Council) was allowed on 22 April 2024 by Inspector Savage M, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the Council's decision to refuse the certificate of lawfulness was well-founded.

Certificate of lawful use for the use of land shaded in green for any purpose incidental to the enjoyment of the dwellinghouse known as The Farmhouse

Authority
Amber Valley Borough Council
Appeal type
ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
residential · Householder developments
Inspector
Savage M
Postcode
DE6 5BG

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether the Council's decision to refuse the certificate of lawfulness was well-founded

What decided it

The land shaded in green was within the curtilage of the dwellinghouse and its use for purposes incidental to the enjoyment of the dwelling was not development by virtue of section 55(2)(d) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

What the Inspector cited

Judgments
Burdle & Williams v SSE & New Forest DC [1972] 1 WLR 1207; Westminster City Council v British Waterways Board [1984] 3 All ER 737; Sinclair-Lockhart's Trustees v Central Land Board (1950) 1 P&CR 195; Methuen-Campbell v Walters [1979] 1 QB 525; R (oao Sumption) v Greenwich LBC [2007] EWHC 2276 (Admin)

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