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Notice varied and upheld17 February 20263371877

Green Barn, Severnside Farm, Bonnies Lane, Gloucester, GL1 2BZ

Planning appeal 3371877 at Green Barn, Severnside Farm, Bonnies Lane, Gloucester, GL1 2BZ (Gloucester City Council) was allowed in part (a split decision) on 17 February 2026 by Inspector Griffin E, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Under ground (e), whether the notice was improperly served on the appellant.

‘Without planning permission, the material change of use of part of the Building on the Land, from agricultural to residential use, to form two (2) self-contained residential dwellings’

Authority
Gloucester City Council
Appeal type
enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure
Inquiry
Development
residential · Change of use
Inspector
Griffin E
Postcode
GL1 2BZ

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Under ground (e), whether the notice was improperly served on the appellant
  • Under ground (d), whether at the date the notice was issued no enforcement action could be taken because the material change of use had occurred and continued without significant interruption for at least four years before the notice was issued

What decided it

The appellant failed to provide sufficiently precise and unambiguous evidence that the material change of use to two self-contained dwellings had continued without significant interruption for a four-year period, with a gap of at least 19 months being fatal to the ground (d) appeal.

What the Inspector cited

Judgments
Gabbitas v SSE & Newham LBC [1985] JPL 630

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