Property Owners in Lancashire

Two residential property owners approached Acorus in 2007 following a letter they had received from their local Council. The letter informed the individuals that the Council had been made aware that land adjacent to their properties had been incorporated into the domestic curtilages.

A meeting with the property owners, by Acorus, established that following the building of the dwellings (barn conversions) in the 1990s, land to the rear of the properties had been kept as garden areas. Although these areas were not originally defined as garden areas as part of the planning consent for the barn conversion development.

The original occupiers of the dwellings and neighbouring residents were able to provide statutory declarations regarding the use of the land at the properties, i.e. retained as garden areas over the past 10 years and forming part of the residential curtilage.

Acorus submitted a Certificate of Lawful Existing Use or Development (CLEUD) in respect of the garden areas at the two properties and both were subsequently approved.