37 Front Street, South Creake, FAKENHAM, NR21 9PF

improvements and alterations to convert the former cart shed into a games room, including the infilling of the vehicle bays with bi-fold doors and a set of new windows and infill brick on the front (northeast) elevation, and a new door cut into the rear (southwest) elevation for access to the garden

Authority: King's Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council
Appeal type: ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Householder developments
Inspector: Madge M

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the Council's refusal to issue a certificate of lawful use or development is well founded, turning on whether the works undertaken benefitted from deemed planning permission granted by the GPDO

What decided it

The bi-fold doors and windows, together with the infill brickwork, comply with condition A.3(a) of the GPDO by having a similar visual appearance in terms of overall shape, colour and size of frames to those in the existing house, thereby benefitting from deemed planning permission.

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