# Little Land, Lower Smaws, Wetherby Road, Tadcaster

- **Decision:** allowed, 25 August 2026
- **Decided by:** Planning Inspector: J Hobbs
- **Authority:** North Yorkshire (Yorkshire and the Humber)
- **Appeal reference:** 6007657
- **Application reference:** ZG2026/0034/ATD
- **Procedure:** written-representations
- **Development:** Class Q prior approval, log/tool store building to 1 dwelling
- **Homes:** 1
- **Site context:** open-countryside
- **Green Belt:** no
- **Framework applied:** No Framework version cited
- **Determinative policies:** DM6
- **Main issues:** established agricultural unit
- **Tags:** tier-2, class-q, prior-approval, framework-not-cited

## Summary
Class Q conversion of a log store was granted. The holding is primarily horticultural, and the building's forestry use is ancillary to that, so it is part of an established agricultural unit. The Framework is not cited.

## What made the difference
The Inspector's site observation that most of the land was used for tree and hedge nursery and seed growing, with only modest log storage (DL ¶10).

## Policy findings
- **DM6: neutral.** highway access-upgrade and parking conditions refused as unnecessary (DL 15-17)

## Key facts
- 10.5-acre holding primarily horticultural (tree and hedge nursery, seed growing); forestry use of building ancillary, so established agricultural unit before 20 March 2013

## Sources
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/published-document/99f60d9f-c8d7-4dda-9be7-06c19617566f
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/comment-planning-appeal/appeals/6007657

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