®Planning appeal decision
Merrymaids Farm, Couchman Green Lane, Staplehurst, Kent, TN12 0RR
a “prior notification for the change of use of a building and any land within its curtilage from agricultural to 3no. dwellinghouses and associated operation development. For its prior approval to: - Transport and Highways impacts of the development. - Noise impacts of the development. - Contamination risks on the site.- Flooding risks on the site. - Whether the location or siting of the building makes it otherwise impractical or undesirable for the use of the buildi ng to change from agricultural use to C3 (dwellinghouses). - Design and external appearance impacts on the building. - Provision of adequate natural light in all habitable rooms of the dwellinghouses
- Authority
- Maidstone Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Whitfield H
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal would constitute permitted development under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of the GPDO, having regard to whether the development would comprise building operations reasonably necessary to convert the building to a dwellinghouse
What decided it
The existing building's structural soundness and capability to function as dwellings, combined with the finding that the proposed building operations would be reasonably necessary for conversion rather than amounting to rebuilding, meant the development constituted permitted development under Class Q of the GPDO.
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