“GPDO Part 3 Class Q – Prior Approval Appeal Decisions” – Update relating to section 55(2)(a) of the TCPA 1990 …

The "GPDO Part 3 Class Q - Prior Approval Appeal Decisions" document covers 300 appeal decisions relating to Part 3 Class Q of the GPDO (i.e. agricultural-to-residential conversions). As stated in this previous post, this document is no longer regularly updated, because it's considered unlikely that significantly more could be learnt about Part 3 Class Q that hasn't already been learnt from these 300 appeals. Instead, appeals after the above 300 (i.e. appeals decided from December 2015 onwards) are added to an "informal list" at the end of the "GPDO Part 3 Class Q - Prior Approval Appeal Decisions" page.

The latter "informal list" currently includes 266 appeals, and it's become apparent that within these subsequent appeals an additional issue has arisen - namely, the argument that certain works would not constitute “development” due to section 55(2)(a) of the TCPA 1990. As such, the following two conclusions have been added to the above document to incorporate this additional issue:

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Notes:

  • To view the decision notices for any of the above appeals, please view the topic titled "Building operations (i.e. article 3(9) of the GPDO, the heading of Part 3 Class Q, and limitation Q.1(i))" within the "GPDO Part 3 Class Q - Prior Approval Appeal Decisions" document. As a member of the Planning Jungle website, you can view the decision notices for all of the appeals on the website for no extra cost.
  • As can be seen from the above quotes, a number of appeal decisions within the first conclusion contradict a number of appeal decisions within the second conclusion.