®Planning appeal decision
Wellers Farm, Marringdean Road, BILLINGSHURST, West Sussex, RH14 9EJ
the change of use of an existing out building to form an annex for ancillary use to the main dwelling
- Authority
- Horsham District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Simpson V
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- the effect of the development on biodiversity
- whether the building would form part of the same planning unit as the dwelling at Wellers Farm, with particular regard to the physical and functional connections between their uses, and if so, whether its use as an annex would be ancillary to the residential use of the dwelling
What decided it
The absence of a bat survey to establish whether the building contained bat roosts, combined with the physical and functional separation of the building from the main dwelling, meant the development could not be accepted as ancillary accommodation and would cause unmitigated harm to biodiversity.
Framework references: 11, 56, 98, 99, 180, 186
Plan policies cited: Policy 31, Policy 28, Policy 1, Policy 3, Policy 4, Policy 26
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