A hotel placed a caravan within its grounds to house its waitresses. The council served an enforcement notice.
Held: There had been no material change of use. The use of the caravan was incidental to the main use of the land. The test was to be applied by looking at the alleged change in the context of the entire planning unit.
Citations:
[1982] JPL 785
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Applied – Wealden District Council v Secretary of State for Environment and Colin Day CA 1988
Land was in an area designated to be of outstanding natural beauty. The Council sought the removal of a caravan used to provide weatherproof storage for cattle food and shelter for the farmer, saying that this amounted to a material change of use. . .
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Planning
Updated: 07 May 2022; Ref: scu.259215