Brookwood Weare Street, Ockley, Dorking, RH5 5NH

Planning appeal 3344226 at Brookwood Weare Street, Ockley, Dorking, RH5 5NH (Mole Valley District Council) was dismissed on 7 February 2025 by Inspector Goldberg V, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Appeal A: whether the proposed development would constitute permitted development as defined under Article 3(1) and Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA of the GPDO and if so, the effect of the proposed development with regard to the prior approval matters specified in paragraph MA.2(2) under Class MA.

Appeal A: conversion of farm office (log cabin) to single dwelling; Appeal B: change of use from agricultural buildings to 4 dwellings (C3 Use Class)

Authority: Mole Valley District Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Change of use
Inspector: Goldberg V
Postcode: RH5 5NH

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Appeal A: whether the proposed development would constitute permitted development as defined under Article 3(1) and Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA of the GPDO and if so, the effect of the proposed development with regard to the prior approval matters specified in paragraph MA.2(2) under Class MA
Appeal B: whether the proposed development would constitute permitted development as defined under Article 3(1) and Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of the GPDO, and if so, the effect of the proposed development with regard to the prior approval matters specified in paragraph Q.2(1) under Class Q

What decided it

In Appeal A, the absence of conclusive evidence of continuous two-year Class E use; in Appeal B, the absence of conclusive evidence that the buildings were part of an established agricultural unit or former agricultural buildings that had been part of one.

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