Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Allowed13 November 20243337777

54 Adelaide Road, Kensington, Liverpool, L7 8SQ

Planning appeal 3337777 at 54 Adelaide Road, Kensington, Liverpool, L7 8SQ (Liverpool City Council) was allowed on 13 November 2024 by Inspector Moore D, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the Council's refusal to grant a Lawful Development Certificate is well-founded.

as a House of Multiple Occupation (HMO) for 3-6 persons (Use Class C4)

Authority
Liverpool City Council
Appeal type
ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector
Moore D
Postcode
L7 8SQ

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether the Council's refusal to grant a Lawful Development Certificate is well-founded

What decided it

The Statutory Declaration, supported by tenancy agreements dated before 17 June 2021 and other corroborating evidence, established on the balance of probabilities that the change of use to HMO Class C4 occurred before the Article 4(1) Direction came into force, making the use lawful.

The decision letter

Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

286 other decided appeals within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision
An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter
Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.
Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app
Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.
Start your free trial

More decisions in Liverpool City Council

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2024

  1. Allowed19 October 20266010482
    Pavement O/S 12 Utting Avenue East, Liverpool, L11 1DQ
  2. Allowed19 October 20266008379
    2 Abdale Road, Norris Green, Liverpool, L11 3EE
  3. Allowed16 October 20266010132
    Surface Car Park & Former Lma - Land at 77-83 & 85-89 Duke Street, Liverpool, L1 5AA
  4. Dismissed13 October 20266012778
    11 Stoneycroft Crescent, Liverpool, L13 6QN
  5. Allowed9 October 20266010480
    Pavement O/S 12 Utting Avenue East, Liverpool, L11 1DQ

The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.

In the app this decision sits on the map beside every appeal around it, with its letter to read and the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out.