Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for an existing use of day room within existing stable building as unit of residential accommodation.

The current tenant of the property-Nurtured Future Living Ltd provides care and accommodation to children that have typically been removed from their family home and are under care orders and the responsibility for care has been passed to a relevant local authority. Whilst "unregulated" homes are sometimes acceptable as a short term emergency solution, the preference is to place such children in homes that are "Regulated" by OFSTED and can then provide a viable long term,stable care solution/environment for such a child thus avoiding the need to move the child (again) and the uncertainty and anxiety this can induce. The purpose of the application is to ascertain that Class C3 (B) is a lawful use of the property.

Planning permission was granted under reference PL/5/2011/0070 for the construction of barn, menage and chalet for workers' residential accommodation. Condition 3 of that permission required the removal of the chalet after 3 years of the date of the permission (granted on 10th June 2011). That condition was not complied with, and the chalet has been in continuous permanent occupation by the owners of Mayfield Stables since it was constructed in 2011. A lawful development certificate is sought for the use of the chalet as a C3 use.