Planning permission — Property used as retail shop — Applicant wishing to change use to provision of legal services — Planning permission refused — Test for Use Class A2 –…
Policy for secondary shopping area directed to achieving balance between shopping and non-shopping uses – Permission for change of use from shop to takeaway refused because of adjacent non-shop use…
Residential area — Permission granted for language school — Special need overriding loss of housing — Language school presently seeking change to office development — Permission refused — Loss of…
Planning permission — Change from retail to office use — Inspector’s refusal — Proposal contrary to local plan policy — Whether decision irrational — Judicial review — Inspector justified in…
Planning permission — Land formerly part of school playing fields — Second respondent entering into conditional contract for purchase of appeal site — Condition stipulating planning permission for housing –…
Enforcement notices — Land used for industrial purposes — Land then used for agriculture for 15 years — Appellants acquiring land and using it as ancillary to their own industrial…
Conversion of property into 10 self-contained units of residential accommodation – Whether conversion constituting change of use to use as 10 single dwellinghouses – Meaning of dwellinghouse – Whether inspector…
Appellants appealing against enforcement notice alleging material change of use of land for parking or storage of motor vehicles – Appellants appealing against refusal of local planning authority to grant…
Respondent council issuing enforcement notice against appellant alleging breach of planning control – Inspector finding material change of use of land and dismissing appeal against enforcement notice – Whether lawful…
Enforcement notice — Material change of use — Siting of caravan for occupation — Caravan well hidden from view — Contention of essential need — Inspector finding that visual intrusion…
Change of use of old farm buildings to use for light industrial purposes – Whether inspector’s determination fundamentally flawed by finding a (mandatory) requirement that development should be to small…
Respondents seeking planning permission for change of use of guesthouse to private dwelling – Applicant local planning authority refusing permission – Respondents appealing – Inspector finding continued tourist use of…