11/00713/F - Borough Council of King's Lynn & West Norfolk

� To avoid occupation by permanent households which would in turn put pressure
upon local services. Permanent households may place demands for local schools
and social and health services that would not normally arise from visitors. Moreover,
in remote locations the cost of providing these services is greater. It may therefore be
reasonable for the planning authority to place an occupancy condition when
properties are being built or converted for residential use; and
� To strengthen tourism in a particular area by ensuring that there is a wide range of
properties available to encourage visitors to come there on holiday.
It states that planning authorities will frame these conditions according to local
circumstances and that they should be ‘reasonable and fair’. The guide gives an example of
occupancy conditions applied elsewhere in the country, these read as follows:-
� The caravans (or cabins/chalets) are occupied for holiday purposes only;
� The caravans (or cabins/chalets) shall not be occupied as a person’s sole, or main
place of residence;
� The owners/operators shall maintain an up-to-date register of the names of all
owners/occupiers of individual caravans/log cabins/chalets on the site, and of their
main home addresses, and shall make this information available at all reasonable
times to the local planning authority.
The current wording of condition 32 states that ‘The development shall only be used as
holiday accommodation and shall not be used as a permanent residence at any time’. The
reason being that ‘The site lies within an area in which the Local Planning Authority would
not normally permit permanent residential development’. From this wording, it is the first of
the bullet points in the practice guide that is relevant to this condition, i.e. to ensure that
policies on development in the countryside are not compromised.
The applicant proposes removing condition 32 as worded and replacing it with 3 conditions
as follows:-
“The residential units hereby approved shall not be the sole residence owned by the
occupier”
“Searles shall maintain an up to-date register of the names of all owners of the residential
units on the site and of the other property owned and shall make this information available at
all reasonable times to the local planning authority”
“The owner of any residential until hereby approved shall throughout their period of
ownership:-
� Be a member of Heacham Manor Golf Club
� Be a member of Searles Resort Club
� Contribute a fair proportion for all services and communal facilities provided by the
resort and used in conjunction with the residential unit”
The applicant acknowledges that the conditions neither refer to holiday accommodation nor
to the units not being used as a permanent place of residence. The last of the three
proposed conditions would also tie the occupier into the facilities provided at the complex.
11/00302/F Development Control Board
25 July 2011
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