Warwick District Council v Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Subject Matter

PLANNING — Development — Planning permission — Extension to existing building — Home owners seeking planning permission for demolition of outbuilding and replacement by garden room/home office — Planning inspector granting permission on basis that proposed structure amounting to extension to building and thus falling within exception to principle that construction of new buildings in Green Belt inappropriate — Whether inspector erring in law — Whether exception applying only where proposed structure physically attached to building being extended — National Planning Policy Framework (2019), para 149(c)

[2022] EWHC 2145 (Admin); [2022] PTSR 1518; [2022] WLR(D) 360, QBD