®Planning appeal decision
16 Lichfield Grove, LONDON, N3 2JP
Without planning permission, the making of a material change of use of the outbuilding to use as a self-contained dwellinghouse
- Authority
- London Borough of Barnet
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Griffin E
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the outbuilding has been used as a self-contained dwellinghouse (ground (b))
- Whether the steps required by the enforcement notice exceed what is necessary to remedy the breach (ground (f))
What decided it
The outbuilding possessed the distinctive characteristics of a dwellinghouse by providing facilities required for day-to-day private domestic existence, and the appellant's evidence that it was used only as ancillary office/gym space was not credible given the presence of a fitted kitchen, washing machine, shower room and sofa bed.
Judgments cited: Gravesham BC v SoS for the Environment (1982) 47 P&CR 142; Murfitt v SSE [1980] JPL 598
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