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Allowed4 November 20243327157

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

Planning appeal 3327157 at Merrywood, Manshay Barton, Manshay Lane, Marshwood, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 5PZ (Dorset) was allowed on 4 November 2024 by Inspector Bale M, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the use of the mobile home has been independent to Manshay Barton, or incidental to the occupation of that existing dwellinghouse.

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
Postcode
DT6 5PZ

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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