Planning appeal decision
Agricultural Building To East Of Cop Street, Upper Goldstone Farm, Cop Street Road, Ash, CT3 2DN
Planning appeal 3362043 at Agricultural Building To East Of Cop Street, Upper Goldstone Farm, Cop Street Road, Ash, CT3 2DN (Dover District Council) was allowed on 6 August 2025 by Inspector Grierson E, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the proposed development would constitute permitted development under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of the GPDO, with particular reference to the extent of the proposed building operations.
a change of use and conversion to a dwelling
- Authority
- Dover District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Grierson E
- Postcode
- CT3 2DN
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposed development would constitute permitted development under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of the GPDO, with particular reference to the extent of the proposed building operations
What decided it
The proposed building operations, whilst relatively significant, are all permitted under Class Q.1(i) of the GPDO and do not amount to complete or substantial rebuilding of the pre-existing structure, satisfying the Hibbitt test for permitted development.
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