4 Grange Road, Tuffley, Gloucester, GL4 0PD

Planning appeal 3359701 at 4 Grange Road, Tuffley, Gloucester, GL4 0PD (Gloucester City Council) was allowed on 3 July 2026 by Inspector Hanson S, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the Council's decision to refuse to grant a certificate of lawful use or development was well founded, turning on whether the siting of a caravan within the curtilage of the dwellinghouse for the residential purposes proposed would amount to development requiring planning permission.

Placement of a caravan within the curtilage of 4 Grange Road for residential accommodation ancillary to the main dwellinghouse

Authority: Gloucester City Council
Appeal type: ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Other minor developments
Inspector: Hanson S
Postcode: GL4 0PD

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the Council's decision to refuse to grant a certificate of lawful use or development was well founded, turning on whether the siting of a caravan within the curtilage of the dwellinghouse for the residential purposes proposed would amount to development requiring planning permission

What decided it

The caravan would maintain a clear functional relationship with the host dwelling through reliance on shared utilities, shared garden use, single ownership and control, and ancillary rather than independent occupation, such that it would not create a separate planning unit and thus would not constitute a material change of use requiring planning permission.

What the Inspector cited

Judgments: Uttlesford District Council v Secretary of State for the Environment and White [1991] 2 PLR 76

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