The Stables Willows Farm Orton Road Warton B79 0HS
Refused on 15 December 2025
Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness RefusedDelegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal
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Proposal
Certificate of lawful development for existing glamping pod used as residential dwellinghouse.
- Received
- 29 August 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Newton Regis and Warton
- ReceivedReceived29 Aug
- ValidatedValidated19 Sep
- Consult.Consultation31 Oct
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided15 Dec
Decided in 87 days
About this application
This is a planning application for a new dwelling at The Stables Willows Farm Orton Road Warton B79 0HS. North Warwickshire has handled 3,131 applications of this type. This one was decided in 108 days, 5 weeks longer than North Warwickshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 7 applications across Newton Regis and Warton. We hold 606 applications in total for the B79 postcode area.
Why it was refused
- Failure to Demonstrate Ten Years’ Residential Use Authorised Officer _______ ________________ Date 15 December 2025 The applicant has not demonstrated, on the balance of probabilities, that the land has been used for residential purposes for the requisite ten-year period. The glamping pod on the site is considered to constitute a caravan, not a building, and the evidence indicates that it has not been occupied as a dwelling and has not been consistently used for sleeping purposes. The use of land for residential purposes in a caravan constitutes a material change of use, to which the ten-year period under Section 171B(3) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 applies. The statutory declaration submitted by the applicant claims that residential occupation began in 2020, which falls significantly short of the required ten-year period. Furthermore, as the caravan has not been used as a dwelling, there is no lawful residential use established on the land. Accordingly, the claimed use cannot be considered lawful through the passage of time, and a Lawful Development Certificate cannot be granted.
From the council's decision notice.
Application details
- Postcode
- B79 0HS
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Polesworth
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 19 September 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 31 October 2025
- Consultation start
- 7 October 2025
- Consultation end
- 31 October 2025
- Application expires
- 14 November 2025
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 8
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Article 4 direction: Borough wide
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.
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Source: North Warwickshire
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