®Planning appeal decision
25 york avenue, slough, SL1 3HW
without planning permission, the material change of use of the dwelling house to a large house in multiple occupation (sui generis use) by more than six persons (‘the unauthorised change of use’)
- Authority
- Slough Borough Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Hawkins S
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Appeal A Ground (b): whether the material change of use of the dwelling house to a large house in multiple occupation by more than six persons has occurred
- Appeal A Ground (c): whether such change of use, if it occurred, constitutes a breach of planning control
- Appeal B Ground (b): whether the material change of use of the outbuilding to a self-contained dwelling has occurred
- Appeal B Ground (c): whether such change of use, if it occurred, constitutes a breach of planning control
What decided it
The Council's precise and unambiguous witness evidence of the actual occupation and use of both the main building as a large HMO and the outbuilding as a self-contained dwelling, combined with the absence of any planning permission for these material changes of use, established breaches of planning control on the balance of probability.
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.