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Quashed On Legal Grounds15 July 20253345755

Six Bells Inn, High Street, Gislingham, Eye, IP23 8JD

Planning appeal 3345755 at Six Bells Inn, High Street, Gislingham, Eye, IP23 8JD (Mid Suffolk District Council) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 15 July 2025 by Inspector Ghafoor A, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether a material change of use from a public house with ancillary residential accommodation to a dwellinghouse had occurred by the date of the enforcement notice.

the change of use of public house building with ancillary residential accommodation (a sui generis use) to use as a dwelling -house

Authority
Mid Suffolk District Council
Appeal type
enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
leisure-sport · Change of use
Inspector
Ghafoor A
Postcode
IP23 8JD

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether a material change of use from a public house with ancillary residential accommodation to a dwellinghouse had occurred by the date of the enforcement notice

What decided it

The evidence presented did not clearly show that a material change of use to a single dwellinghouse had in fact occurred by the date of the enforcement notice, as the ground floor retained its physical characteristics and appearance of a public house with no evidence of conversion to residential use.

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