Cases - Moore v Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Record details

Name

Moore v Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Date

[1998]

Citation

2 PLR 65

Keywords

Planning control

Summary

The outbuildings of a large Edwardian country house were converted into 10 self-contained units of residential accommodation for the purpose of holiday lettings in the New Forest. The planning inspector did not regard the units as single dwellinghouses because they were not occupied as permanent homes. The Court of Appeal held, following Gravesham, that there was no such requirement. Nor do dwellinghouses cease to be used as such because they are managed as a whole for the commercial purpose of holiday or other temporary lettings. Had the correct test been applied the inspector could only have properly concluded that the 10 units were being used as single dwellinghouses.