Unit A, Estune Business Park Wild, Country Lane,, Long Ashton, BRISTOL, BS41 9FH

change of use of ground floor and first floor offices (Class E) to residential use (Class C3), creating 12 No new flats

Authority: North Somerset Council
Appeal type: major · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Major dwellings
Inspector: Fish A

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the proposed development is permitted development under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 having particular regard to Condition 10 of the outline permission

What decided it

The wording of Condition 10, which uses 'only' to specify permitted employment uses rather than to exclude all other uses, does not prevent non-employment uses such as residential development from taking place at the site, particularly those which would not be harmful to residential amenity.

Plan policies cited: Policy ENV/1 of the North Somerset Local Plan

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