Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Notice varied and upheld12 February 20253346370

Mena Barn, Lanivet, Bodmin, PL30 5HW

Planning appeal 3346370 at Mena Barn, Lanivet, Bodmin, PL30 5HW (Cornwall Council) was allowed in part (a split decision) on 12 February 2025 by Inspector Jarratt P, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the development is tantamount to a new dwelling in the countryside or whether it is annexe accommodation.

a retrospective extension to existing building as self-contained annexe to main dwelling

Authority
Cornwall Council
Appeal type
enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
residential · Change of use
Inspector
Jarratt P
Postcode
PL30 5HW

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether the development is tantamount to a new dwelling in the countryside or whether it is annexe accommodation
  • The effect that the development has on the character and appearance of the countryside

What decided it

The building's three-bedroom size, self-contained design, location outside the curtilage of the main dwelling, and failure to meet the limited circumstances for housing in open countryside under Policy 3 of the Cornwall Local Plan meant it constituted a new dwelling rather than an annexe, which cannot be permitted in this location.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy 3Policy 12Policy 23

How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.

See how each was applied

The decision letter

Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

1 other decided appeal within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision
An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter
Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.
Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app
Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.
Start your free trial

More decisions in Cornwall

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2025

  1. Allowed28 October 20266006769
    Wayside Barn, Field Opposite Lower Reen Farm, Reen, Perranporth, TR6 0AL
  2. Notice upheld16 September 20263363841
    Sand Sea and Surf, Wharf Road, St.Ives, TR26 1LF
  3. Notice upheld29 July 20263364019
    2 Battery Terrace, Mevagissey, St. Austell, PL26 6QS
  4. Notice varied and upheld28 July 20263367244
    Land Adjacent to Nicholas , Halamanning, Penzance, England, TR20 9HT
  5. Notice varied and upheld23 July 20263365106
    Land East of 'The Stables', Bar Lane, Connor Downs, Cornwall, TR27 5DF

The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.

In the app this decision sits on the map beside every appeal around it, with its letter to read and the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out.