181-183 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ

Change of use from commercial floorspace (Class E) to 39 no. self - contained units (Class C3) with associated cycle and refuse storage, and blue badge parking bays

Authority: London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Appeal type: major · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Major dwellings
Inspector: Lawrence R

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

whether or not the proposal would be permitted development under class MA.1, with particular regard to the use of the building and whether or not it forms land in the curtilage of a listed building
whether or not there is sufficient information to demonstrate that the proposal would provide an adequate provision of natural light to all habitable rooms of dwellinghouses

What decided it

The appellant failed to provide sufficient evidence that the appeal buildings had been in continuous Class E use for the two-year period required by paragraph MA.1(1)(b) of the GPDO, leaving reasonable doubt as to the lawful use.

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