Planning appeal decision
Morrells Farm, Lower Bognor Road, Lagness, PO20 1LR
Planning appeal 6005173 at Morrells Farm, Lower Bognor Road, Lagness, PO20 1LR (Arun District Council) was dismissed on 5 June 2026 by Inspector A Wright, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the proposal would meet the limitation in paragraph Q1(b)(iii) of Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of the GPDO, namely that since ceasing to be part of an established agricultural unit, the site has not been used for any non-agricultural purpose.
to convert the dairy into two tourist units and the barn into one tourist unit, with minor fenestration changes
- Authority
- Arun District Council
- Appeal type
- Planning
- Procedure
- Written
- Development
- leisure-sport
- Inspector
- A Wright
- Postcode
- PO20 1LR
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal would meet the limitation in paragraph Q1(b)(iii) of Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of the GPDO, namely that since ceasing to be part of an established agricultural unit, the site has not been used for any non-agricultural purpose
What decided it
The site has been used for non-agricultural purposes (workshop storage, domestic item storage, and construction business use) since ceasing to be part of an established agricultural unit, which fails to meet the mandatory limitation in paragraph Q1(b)(iii) of the GPDO.
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