Merrywood, Manshay Barton, Manshay Lane, Marshwood, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 5PZ

the siting of the residential mobile home and its use as a separate, independent residential dwellinghouse within use class C3, plus the use of the residential garden and the use of the outbuildings for domestic storage ancillary to the use of Merrywood

Authority: Dorset
Appeal type: ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Minor traveller and caravan pitches
Inspector: Bale M

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the use of the mobile home has been independent to Manshay Barton, or incidental to the occupation of that existing dwellinghouse

What decided it

The Council's own statement in its refusal reason that immunity would be gained on 12 January 2025 constituted clear acceptance that the mobile home had been used as a separate independent dwelling since 13 January 2015, and there was no evidence the use had changed since occupation commenced in 2011.

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