Land at the Former Animal Health Trust Research Centre, Kentford, CB8 7UA

use of the land for Class E purposes

Authority: West Suffolk
Appeal type: ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
Procedure: Inquiry
Development: other · Change of use
Inspector: Madge M

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

The main issue is whether the Council's refusal to grant a lawful development certificate for the existing use of land for Class E purposes was well founded.

What decided it

The finding that the site's two primary uses (research and development, and clinical services) both fell within Use Class E and had continued without significant interruption for more than the relevant 10-year period.

Judgments cited: Burdle v Secretary of State for the Environment [1972] 1 WLR 1207 (Div Court); Karla v SSE (1996) 72 P&CR 423; R v Thurrock Borough Council, ex parte Costco 1993 WL 964266 (1993); R v LB Kensington and Chelsea, ex p Europa Foods Ltd 1996 WL 1090308 (1996)

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