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Quashed On Legal Grounds31 July 20253354050

18 Richmond Road, Caversham, Reading, RG4 7PP

Planning appeal 3354050 at 18 Richmond Road, Caversham, Reading, RG4 7PP (Reading Borough Council) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 31 July 2025 by Inspector Freer P, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the use of part of the garden building as a beauty salon receiving customers constitutes a material change of use of the planning unit such that it breaches planning control.

Material change of use of a garden building incidental to the enjoyment of the dwellinghouse to a mixed-use that includes business purposes (treatment room receiving customers)

Authority
Reading Borough Council
Appeal type
enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
other · Change of use
Inspector
Freer P
Postcode
GG4 7PP

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether the use of part of the garden building as a beauty salon receiving customers constitutes a material change of use of the planning unit such that it breaches planning control

What decided it

The use of the garden building as a beauty salon, being small in scale, limited in hours of operation, and incidental to the primary residential use of the planning unit, did not constitute a material change of use and therefore did not breach planning control.

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