Planning appeal decision
Land at Cockenskell Farm, Blawith, Ulverston, LA12 8EL
Planning appeal 3343935 at Land at Cockenskell Farm, Blawith, Ulverston, LA12 8EL (Lake District) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 25 October 2024 by Inspector Hartley D, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the brooder units constitute operational development requiring planning permission, or whether they are moveable chattels in connection with lawful agricultural use.
without planning permission, operational development consisting of the erection of four terraces of brooder units with timber and net enclosures
- Authority
- Lake District
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- agricultural · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- Hartley D
- Postcode
- LA12 8EL
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the brooder units constitute operational development requiring planning permission, or whether they are moveable chattels in connection with lawful agricultural use
What decided it
The brooder units lacked the permanence and physical attachment necessary to constitute buildings, being moveable chattels placed on site seasonally for approximately fourteen weeks each year and removed using a telehandler.
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