Mount Clare Campus, Minstead Gardens, Roehampton Gate, London, SW15 4EE

Planning appeal 3358768 at Mount Clare Campus, Minstead Gardens, Roehampton Gate, London, SW15 4EE (London Borough of Wandsworth) was dismissed on 11 July 2025 by Inspector Bale M, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the existing lawful use of the Site remains a student hostel use or has become a mixed use including office and storage uses.

for temporary accommodation

Authority: London Borough of Wandsworth
Appeal type: ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
Procedure: Inquiry
Development: residential · Householder developments
Inspector: Bale M
Postcode: SW15 4EE

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.

What the Inspector cited

Judgments: 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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