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Dismissed13 June 20253334948

Guys Farm Cottage, Woodham Walter, Maldon, Essex, CM9 6LW

Planning appeal 3334948 at Guys Farm Cottage, Woodham Walter, Maldon, Essex, CM9 6LW (Maldon District Council) was dismissed on 13 June 2025 by Inspector Hartley D, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the Council's decision to refuse to grant an LDC was well founded with particular regard as to whether the property falling within the red edge of drawing No. LPV3, submitted with the LDC application, is lawfully a use class C3 dwellinghouse (including the identified associated curtilage).

use as a single dwellinghouse (and its associated curtilage) within class C3 of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 (as amended) of the property known as Guys Cottage, Man or Road, Woodham Walter, CM9 6LW

Authority
Maldon District Council
Appeal type
ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector
Hartley D
Postcode
CM9 6LW

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether the Council's decision to refuse to grant an LDC was well founded with particular regard as to whether the property falling within the red edge of drawing No. LPV3, submitted with the LDC application, is lawfully a use class C3 dwellinghouse (including the identified associated curtilage)

What decided it

The appellant failed to provide sufficiently precise and unambiguous evidence on the balance of probability to demonstrate four continuous years of use as an independent class C3 dwellinghouse, particularly given the contradictions in her own correspondence and the significant gaps in the claimed tenancy periods.

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