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Search the Public Notice PortalOwners of a 1960s bungalow on a historic Herefordshire estate have been told it need not be occupied by a farmer.
Planning permission to build Hazeldene, in Woonton between Weobley and Lyonshall, was granted to Lt Col R Snead-Cox of Broxwood (given as “Boxwood”) Court in 1967 on condition that it was “limited to persons employed locally in agriculture (and their) dependents”.
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But in July a Mr J R Snead-Cox and Mrs A Allen sought a certificate of lawfulness that this condition has been breached for so long – in this case, since 2004 – that it could no longer be acted on.
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Planning officer Matthew Neilson has now concluded that sworn evidence from previous tenants and agents presented with the application was “sufficiently precise and unambiguous” to establish that no occupant of the cottage had met the agricultural occupancy condition “since at least 2004”.
That being the case, “the period in which enforcement action could be taken against the breach of condition has now expired”, he said.
The certificate of lawfulness was granted.
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