# Workshop, 20 Bury Lane, Bramfield

- **Decision:** allowed, 8 September 2026
- **Decided by:** Planning Inspector: John Felgate
- **Authority:** East Hertfordshire (East of England)
- **Appeal reference:** 6010708
- **Application reference:** 3/25/1349/FUL
- **Procedure:** written-representations
- **Development:** Appeal against hours-of-use condition on replacement motor-repair workshop
- **Site context:** inside-settlement
- **Green Belt:** no
- **Framework applied:** No Framework version cited
- **Determinative policies:** s38(6), DM6
- **Development plan policies:** East Herts District Plan 2018 DES4, EQ2
- **Main issues:** hours-of-use condition, neighbour amenity
- **Tags:** tier-2, conditions-appeal, no-framework-reference

## Summary
An appeal against an hours-of-use condition on a replacement village motor-repair workshop. Allowed, with the hours aligned to a later variation the council itself granted. The letter never mentions the Framework, old or new. It is a short conditions decision resting on development plan noise policies and the later permission.

## What made the difference
The council's own later, more generous permission made the disputed condition unreasonable. A narrow use restriction was refused because it would jeopardise financing (DL ¶8).

## Policy findings
- **DM6: pass.** hours condition varied to match later council-granted VAR (06.00-21.00 weekdays); council's use-restriction condition rejected as threatening fundability/viability (DL 5-8); letter cites no Framework policy — code mapped by harvester

## Key facts
- Council had since granted 3/26/0359/VAR with wider hours, so old condition no longer reasonable (DL 4, 6)
- Proposed restriction to MOT/repairs only would deter lenders (DL 8)

## Sources
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/comment-planning-appeal/appeals/6010708
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/published-document/aa473e87-d840-456a-9dc8-69a794759c29

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