®Planning appeal decision
The Barns, Daniel Farm, Smarden Bell Road, Pluckley, Ashford, Kent, TN27 0SY
This application seeks to provide five new dwellings within the two agricultural barns. Three of these dwellings are 'smaller dwellings' and two of these dwellings are 'larger dwellings'. The barns subject of this proposed Change of Use are outlined within the Location Plan attached to this planning submission
- Authority
- Ashford Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- 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 (i) the agricultural use of the buildings; and (ii) whether the development would comprise building operations reasonably necessary to convert the buildings to dwellinghouses
- if it does, whether prior approval is required and should be granted having regard to whether the location or siting of the buildings makes it otherwise impractical or undesirable for the buildings to change from agricultural use to dwellinghouses in respect of the effect of the proposed development on protected species
What decided it
The appeal site was not demonstrated to have been used solely for an agricultural use as part of an established agricultural unit on or before 20 March 2013, as required by paragraph Q.1(a) of Class Q, due to evidence of substantial non-agricultural uses occurring over several years.
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