Planning appeal decision
Land Adjoining Popps Cottage, Little Tey Road, Feering, Essex, CO5 9RP
Planning appeal 3373812 at Land Adjoining Popps Cottage, Little Tey Road, Feering, Essex, CO5 9RP (Braintree District Council) was dismissed on 8 January 2026 by Inspector Phillips A, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the building operations would be to an extent reasonably necessary to convert the building to a use falling within Class C3.
conversion of existing barn into x4 3 bed dwellings as per drawings
- Authority
- Braintree District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Phillips A
- Postcode
- CO5 9RP
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the building operations would be to an extent reasonably necessary to convert the building to a use falling within Class C3
- Whether the proposal would comply with the curtilage limitations under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of the GPDO
What decided it
The proposal failed to demonstrate that building operations would be reasonably necessary to convert the barn to residential use and breached the curtilage limitations prescribed by Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of the GPDO.
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