®Planning appeal decision
The Mash Inn, Horseshoe Road, Radnage, Buckinghamshire, HP14 4EB
Change of use of the existing restaurant with guest accommodation, associated single storey detached outbuilding and land (use class E(b)) to form 1 x 5 -bed detached dwelling together with parking, outbuilding and hard/soft landscaping to create residential amenity space (use class C3)
- Authority
- Buckinghamshire Council - Wycombe Area *
- Appeal type
- ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- Dignan P
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Appeal A: whether the Council's decision to refuse to grant a certificate of lawful use was well-founded
- Appeal B: whether the loss of a rural public house use as a community facility without justification is justified, and whether the benefits of housing provision outweigh the harm to the community facility and National Landscape
What decided it
The appellant failed to prove on the balance of probabilities that the premises had lawfully changed use from a public house to a restaurant, and the inadequate needs assessment failed to demonstrate that the public house was surplus to community needs, such that the loss of this important community facility significantly and demonstrably outweighed the benefit of a single dwelling.
the harm arising from the unjustified loss of an important community facility, along with adverse consequences for the enjoyment and understanding of the National Landscape and community character and function, significantly and demonstrably outweighs the modest benefit of the provision of a single dwelling
Framework references: 11
Plan policies cited: Policy DM29, Policy DM30, Policy DM35
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