A home owner will not have to tear down their summer house after successfully appealing a decision to refuse it.
The 91sqm installation had been built without permission at Waits Farm Barns in Seas End Road, Moulton Seas End.
South Holland District Council had refused the retrospective application last May as planning officers said its size was ‘considered to be unacceptable and disproportionate’.
“The proposal represents inappropriate development outside the defined settlement boundary,” the report at the time stated,
But applicant Neil Dowlman Architecture on behalf of the owners successfully appealed that decision to central government.
Martin Andrews, of the Planning Inspectorate, ruled that as the summer house was only 15.6 per cent of the size of the main home.
“In my view it is very unlikely that to the limited extent that the summer house can be seen from the public realm it would firstly draw the eye of the viewer and secondly be perceived negatively,” he stated after highlighting industrial buildings nearby and calling the building ‘pleasingly bespoke’.
Mr Andrews did though recommend a condition that the ‘unusually large’ garden room be put in that it cannot be used as a property.
* An appeal for South Holland District Council to act on a breach of planning conditions at a Crowland caravan site has failed.
Enforcement action has been requested on the Bridge Inn Caravan Park which is meant for holiday use only and council offers said they had evidence of year round habitability.
