Exercising Class R conversion to stable block

[Mike Wynn]

I have a disused stable block located in a field of mine within the Cotswold AONB. It is my intention to convert this using the Clarkson clause (class R) to an AirBNB. I can see within class R that I would be allowed to convert the stable into a hotel (Class C1), however would a holiday let/airbnb also fall within this category? 

[IanR]

If your are renting out the unit as a "whole", where it may have a couple of bedrooms, a kitchen and a sitting area, then this would be a C3 Residential Use, rather than a C1. I believe for a C1 you'd have to rent out individual rooms, as per a hotel. But... there is a grey area between these two.

 

The last Tory government had completed a consultation for a new C5 Use Class, specifically for AirBnB "2nd homes", I've not heard if Labour intend to bring this to fruition, but it's not on the statute books yet.

[Mike Wynn]

Thanks very much for your response Ian, I am finding it very confusing after looking at various planning information online it is certainly a grey area! Would a holiday let for example still fall into C3 or would it be C1? 

[IanR]

I believe it would, although "holiday let" may mean different things to different people.

 

To me a holiday let (which may be let via AirBnB), would be a self-contained unit that provides facilities for day-to-day living for a single person of family, so falls within C3.

 

C1 is intended for hotels, where rooms would be individually let to unconnected people and may not provide full facilities for day-to-day living.

 

Ref.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/764/schedule/part/C/made?view=plain