Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Notice upheld27 October 20253356055

68 Dexter Avenue, Oldbrook, Milton Keynes, MK6 2QH

Planning appeal 3356055 at 68 Dexter Avenue, Oldbrook, Milton Keynes, MK6 2QH (Milton Keynes Council) was dismissed on 27 October 2025 by Inspector Braithwaite J, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the property was in use for commercial short-term letting purposes on the date of issue of the enforcement notice.

material change of use (MCU) from a private dwellinghouse to a commercial short term let/Airbnb

Authority
Milton Keynes Council
Appeal type
enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
other · Change of use
Inspector
Braithwaite J
Postcode
MK6 2QH

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether the property was in use for commercial short-term letting purposes on the date of issue of the enforcement notice

What decided it

The Appellant's own corroboration of the alleged breach through her email to the Council, combined with documentary evidence of active commercial listings on the date of the enforcement notice, established the material change of use had occurred.

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

47 other decided appeals 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 Milton Keynes Council

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

  1. Notice varied and upheld9 July 20263365515
    Land at Flat 7, Heath Court, Lower End Road, Glebe Farm , Milton Keynes, MK17 8XS
  2. Planning permission granted9 July 20263355968
    Unit Nine, 9 Bridgeturn Avenue, Old Wolverton, Milton Keynes, MK12 5QL
  3. Notice varied and upheld28 April 20263345154
    50 Wolverton Road, Haversham, Milton Keynes, MK19 7AA
  4. Planning permission granted9 March 20263373393
    Land West of High Street, Opposite Gun Lane,, Sherington, Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire, MK16 9PE
  5. Notice varied and upheld2 March 20263341572
    1 Mendelssohn Grove, Browns Wood, Milton Keynes, MK7 8DH

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.