®Planning appeal decision
Land Adj. Newtonside Orchard, Burfield Road, Old Windsor, Windsor, SL4 2RE
Planning appeal 3373234 at Land Adj. Newtonside Orchard, Burfield Road, Old Windsor, Windsor, SL4 2RE (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead) was allowed on 12 March 2026 by Inspector Willows P, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the Council's decision to refuse to issue a certificate was well founded, which turns on whether, on the date of the application, the use of the land as a caravan site for the siting of up to 4 mobile homes for human habitation would have amounted to a material change of use.
‘Use of land as a caravan site for the siting of up to 4 mobile homes for human habitation’
- Appeal type
- ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- caravan-gypsy · Major traveller and caravan pitches
- Inspector
- Willows P
- Postcode
- SL4 2RE
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the Council's decision to refuse to issue a certificate was well founded, which turns on whether, on the date of the application, the use of the land as a caravan site for the siting of up to 4 mobile homes for human habitation would have amounted to a material change of use
What decided it
The finding that the appeal site and the established caravan site formed a single planning unit already lawfully used as a caravan site, so the additional mobile homes would not amount to a material change of use.
What the Inspector cited
- Judgments
- Palser v Grinling [1948] AC 291; East Barnet UDC v British Transport Commission [1962] 2 QB 484; Hertfordshire CC v The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and Metal Waste Recycling Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 1473; Reed v Secretary of State of State for Communities and Local Government & Anor [2014] EWCA Civ 241; Burdle & Williams v SSE & New Forest DC [1972] 1 WLR 1207; Hertfordshire CC v SSCLG & Metal and Waste Recycling Ltd [2012] EWHC 277 (Admin)
How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.
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