Skandi Lodge, Keighley Road, Silsden, Keighley, West Yorkshire, BD20 0EH

Planning appeal 3371480 at Skandi Lodge, Keighley Road, Silsden, Keighley, West Yorkshire, BD20 0EH (City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council) was dismissed on 5 December 2025 by Inspector Brook S, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the proposal would be permitted development under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of the GPDO, specifically whether the building is part of an established agricultural unit or a former agricultural building that was part of an established agricultural unit, whether Part 6 Class A(a) or Class B(a) development has taken place on the established agricultural unit within the specified period, and whether the floorspace would exceed 150 square metres.

Conversion of the existing building into a dwelling

Authority: City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Change of use
Inspector: Brook S
Postcode: BD20 0EH

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the proposal would be permitted development under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of the GPDO, specifically whether the building is part of an established agricultural unit or a former agricultural building that was part of an established agricultural unit, whether Part 6 Class A(a) or Class B(a) development has taken place on the established agricultural unit within the specified period, and whether the floorspace would exceed 150 square metres

What decided it

The holding did not meet the definition of an established agricultural unit because the land was not occupied as agricultural land on or before 20 March 2013 or for 10 years before the development would begin, and Class A(a) development had been carried out within the prohibited 10-year period.

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