Just got my PD restriction removed on appeal

[Alan Ambrose]

Small progress. Just because my LPA were teeling me off, I submitted an application and then an appeal to have my PD rights reinstated.

 

This is for a barn conversion completed in 2017 (not by me). My LPA seems to remove PD rights on all new houses.

 

So, one small step forward. I'll post up a sanitised version of the appeal docs and decision notice when I get a few minutes.

[Tom]

Sounds interesting, was that a Part Q conversion? Our build was a Part Q then full planning, and has had PD rights removed. Will be interested to see if this can be reversed.

[Alan Ambrose]

No it wasn't class Q - just conventional planning permission. My LPA removed PD from the recent permission for a whole new village estate of 20 conventional houses - I think the LPA do it now as a matter of course. I guess the developer doesn't care. Some are 4 beds with big gardens.

 

Amusingly, for my place, when the developers got permission, the LPA heritage people said 'knock it down if you want to, it doesn't have any heritage interest'. And 6 years later, the LPA, in response to my application for reinstatement of PD rights tried 'we need to control its barn-like qualities'. Yeah right.

Edited October 22 by Alan Ambrose

[Alan Ambrose]

BTW this took 40.6 weeks / 9.3 months from filing, so about 2.2x the headline number quoted on the .gov site. I can't imagine a much simpler householder appeal.

 

.gov quotes 18.8 weeks for householder appeals. But these timescales are from 'validation' until decision. 'Validation' took 4 weeks in this case.