Planning appeal decision
Woodfold Park Stud, Woodfold Park, Mellor, BB2 7QA
Planning appeal 3340642 at Woodfold Park Stud, Woodfold Park, Mellor, BB2 7QA (Ribble Valley Borough Council) was allowed on 26 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 a certificate of lawful use or development was well-founded with particular regard to whether the proposed erection of rear extensions to the dwellinghouse would be permitted development under Class A of Part 1 of Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended).
the erection of rear extensions to the dwellinghouse
- Authority
- Ribble Valley Borough Council
- Appeal type
- ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Hartley D
- Postcode
- BB2 7QA
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the Council's decision to refuse to grant a certificate of lawful use or development was well-founded with particular regard to whether the proposed erection of rear extensions to the dwellinghouse would be permitted development under Class A of Part 1 of Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended)
What decided it
The evidence established that the rear grassed area had always been used as a garden in intimate and functional association with the dwellinghouse and therefore formed part of its curtilage, allowing the extensions to qualify as permitted development under Class A of the GPDO.
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