®Planning appeal decision
Britannia Farm, Sunny Corner, Cusgarne, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 8SE
renovation of an agricultural outbuilding to a domestic residential annexe for auxiliary accommodation to the main dwelling incorporating a bedroom and home office area for family use, retention and completion of parking area, domestic shed, change of use of agricultural land to domestic garden land and associated works
- Authority
- Cornwall Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Davies N
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the site is suitable for a new dwelling, bearing in mind the settlement policies of the development plan, and, if not, whether the proposed building could reasonably operate as an annexe to the main dwelling, and whether such occupation would overcome any policy conflict or other harm
- The effect of the development on the character and appearance of the area
What decided it
The proposal's characterisation as an annexe with functional dependence on the main dwelling, rather than as an independent new dwelling, overcomes the policy conflict arising from the site's unsuitability in the open countryside.
Plan policies cited: Policy 2, Policy 3, Policy 7, Policy 21, Policy 1, Policy 12, Policy 23, Policy H4, Policy C1, Policy T1, Policy GQD1, Policy GQD2
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