®Planning appeal decision
Dismissed11 July 20253358768
Mount Clare Campus, Minstead Gardens, Roehampton Gate, London, SW15 4EE
for temporary accommodation
- Authority
- London Borough of Wandsworth
- Appeal type
- ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- residential · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Bale M
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the existing lawful use of the Site remains a student hostel use or has become a mixed use including office and storage uses
- Whether the proposed use as a hostel for temporary accommodation is materially different to use of the Site for student accommodation, such that it would amount to a material change of use
What decided it
The Inspector concluded that the proposed hostel for temporary accommodation would constitute a material change of use from the Site's lawful (mixed) use, for which no planning permission had been obtained.
Judgments cited: Commercial and Residential Property Development Co. Ltd v Secretary of State for the Environment & Another [1981] 80 LGR 443; Ipswich BC v Fairview Hotels (Ipswich Ltd) [2022] EWHC 2868 (KB)
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