The English Barn, Idlicote Estate Barns, Idlicote, Shipston-on-Stour, CV36 5DW

Planning appeal 3345345 at The English Barn, Idlicote Estate Barns, Idlicote, Shipston-on-Stour, CV36 5DW (Stratford-on-Avon District Council) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 29 August 2025 by Inspector Boffin D, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the erection of a dwellinghouse through the rebuilding of a former agricultural building has occurred as a matter of fact and degree, or whether the development constitutes a conversion of the existing building.

Erection of a dwellinghouse through rebuilding of a former agricultural building, change of use of land from agricultural to domestic garden use, partial demolition and external alterations to create ancillary domestic building, laying of patio area, and creation of driveway/parking area

Authority: Stratford-on-Avon District Council
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector: Boffin D
Postcode: CV36 5DW

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the erection of a dwellinghouse through the rebuilding of a former agricultural building has occurred as a matter of fact and degree, or whether the development constitutes a conversion of the existing building

What decided it

The detailed timeline and photographic evidence demonstrating that pre-existing blockwork and timber cladding were retained and replaced only when found structurally unsound, combined with the incremental nature of the works and the Council's own prior characterisation of similar development as a conversion, established that the development constituted a conversion rather than a rebuild.

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