A HOMEOWNER has been given the green light to build a mobile home in his backyard.
Wychavon District Council has certified a certificate of lawfulness for Nick Bocking to build a mobile home in the back garden of 14 Owletts End in Pinvin.
The mobile home would be used by a family member with disabilities and would be incidental to the home, with services coming from the main house, such as electricity and water.
The lodgings would be built off-site, delivered in sections, and not sold off separately.
Plans state: “The proposal comprises the siting of a single mobile home within the residential curtilage (rear garden) of the host dwelling.
“The unit is intended to provide independent living accommodation for a family member with physical disabilities, whose needs require step-free access, single-level living, and proximity to primary carers within the main dwelling.
“The structure will be a genuine mobile home, constructed off-site and delivered in sections, and will remain capable of being moved.
“It will rest on a non-permanent base, with no fixed foundations, and will not be physically attached to the main dwelling.”
To learn more, click here: https://plan.wychavon.gov.uk/Planning/Display/W/26/01024/CLPU
What the mobile home would look like (Image: Wychavon District Council)
Plans add: “All services (water, drainage, and electricity) will be connected in a manner consistent with typical ancillary garden structures and will be reversible.
“The use of the mobile home is incidental to the enjoyment of the main dwelling house and will not form a separate planning unit.
“It will not be occupied independently or sold off separately, and no separate postal address or curtilage subdivision is proposed.
“The primary purpose of the development is to meet the specific and ongoing needs of a disabled occupant, allowing a suitable standard of accommodation while maintaining close support from family members in the main house.
“The siting, scale, and appearance of the mobile home will be subordinate to the host dwelling and will not materially impact the neighbouring properties.
“Given that the structure meets the definition of a mobile home and does not constitute operational development involving permanent building works and that its use is incidental to the main dwelling, we hope you can agree it is considered lawful.”
Amber Moore, planning case officer at Wychavon District Council, said: “The mobile home is not a building and no change of use of the land is involved as the mobile home would be within the existing residential curtilage and would be incidental to the purposes of the main dwelling.
“Therefore, there would be no creation of a new planning unit and no operational development.
“As such, the proposal is lawful and this certificate should be granted.”
