Planning appeal decision
Chapel Cottage, High Street, Boston Spa , LS23 6AA
Planning appeal 3326823 at Chapel Cottage, High Street, Boston Spa , LS23 6AA (Leeds City Council) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 15 April 2024 by Inspector Boffin D, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the boundary wall was within the curtilage of Spa Lane Methodist Church and therefore part of the listed building.
Removal of a section of the curtilage listed stone boundary wall without Listed Building Consent
- Authority
- Leeds City Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Appeal against Enforcement Listed Building Notice/Enforcement Conservation Area Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- other · Not Applicable
- Inspector
- Boffin D
- Postcode
- LS23 6AA
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the boundary wall was within the curtilage of Spa Lane Methodist Church and therefore part of the listed building
What decided it
The boundary wall was not within the curtilage of Spa Lane Methodist Church because it was visually and physically separated from the church/graveyard and functioned as ancillary to the residential use of Chapel Cottage rather than the ecclesiastical use of the church.
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