Planning appeal decision
Land at Higher Pennance Farm, Grampound Road, Truro, Cornwall, TR2 4EY
Planning appeal 3336710 at Land at Higher Pennance Farm, Grampound Road, Truro, Cornwall, TR2 4EY (Cornwall Council) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 1 May 2026 by Inspector Whitfield J, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the alleged breach of planning control, being a material change of use of the land to a mixed use comprising agricultural and residential through the stationing of caravans for residential purposes, has occurred.
Material change of use of agricultural land to mixed use comprising agricultural and residential through stationing of caravans for residential purposes and associated operational development including porches, pergolas, timber outbuildings, domestic sheds, picket fencing, hardstanding and access track
- Authority
- Cornwall Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- caravan-gypsy · Change of use
- Inspector
- Whitfield J
- Postcode
- TR2 4EY
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the alleged breach of planning control, being a material change of use of the land to a mixed use comprising agricultural and residential through the stationing of caravans for residential purposes, has occurred
What decided it
The land subject to the enforcement notice comprises two or more physically separate planning units occupied for different and unrelated purposes, therefore the alleged material change of use to a mixed use on the land as a whole has not occurred.
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