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Dismissed2 September 20263359620

Keytons Pit Newton Road, Sudbury, CO10 0PY

Planning appeal 3359620 at Keytons Pit Newton Road, Sudbury, CO10 0PY (Mid Suffolk District Council) was dismissed on 2 September 2026 by Inspector King T, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the residential occupation of the caravan, in other words the unauthorised material change in the use of the land, was lawful due to the passage of time, having continued unbroken on, or rather on an uninterrupted basis since at least 14 July 2014.

Authority
Mid Suffolk District Council
Appeal type
Lawful Development Certificate
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector
King T

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • whether the residential occupation of the caravan, in other words the unauthorised material change in the use of the land, was lawful due to the passage of time, having continued unbroken on, or rather on an uninterrupted basis since at least 14 July 2014

What decided it

The evidence was insufficiently precise and unambiguous to discharge the appellant's burden of proof that the use had continued uninterrupted for ten years, particularly given the significant periods of non-use and the replacement of the original caravan.

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