®Planning appeal decision
Dismissed4 August 20253350086
South Lockbarn Cottage Shoreham Road, Upper Beeding, STEYNING, BN44 3TU
an existing use for an outbuilding of more than ten years as ancillary use to the main dwelling
- Authority
- South Downs
- Appeal type
- ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Phillips A
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the Authority's refusal to issue a certificate of lawful use or development was well founded, turning on whether the appellants proved on the balance of probability that the use of the property changed to use as ancillary to the main dwelling on or before 26 November 2011 and that the use then continued without significant interruption for ten years after the date of the change
What decided it
The appellants failed to provide sufficiently precise and unambiguous evidence to demonstrate that the outbuilding had been continuously used for residential purposes ancillary to the main dwelling for the required ten-year period prior to the application date.
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.