Family annexe accommodation at 169 Butt Lane, Coventry

“This application relates to the retrospective application for retention of a detached outbuilding within the rear garden of No. 169 Butt Lane for use as ancillary annexe accommodation. The application is a slightly amended resubmission of a previously refused scheme.”

“The application seeks retrospective planning permission for a detached outbuilding within the rear garden of No. 169 Butt Lane for use as ancillary annexe accommodation by a family member. The outbuilding provides a bedroom, shower room, living/dining space and limited “kitchenette” and laundry facilities.”

“The application site comprises an end-of-terrace residential dwelling with a generous front driveway and rear garden, located within an established residential area characterised primarily by two-storey semi-detached and terraced housing. An outbuilding is situated at the bottom of the rear garden, which was approved under a previous householder permission for purposes incidental to the residential use of the dwelling.”

“The application seeks the retrospective retention of a detached outbuilding located within the rear garden of No. 169 Butt Lane. A key consideration is whether the outbuilding constitutes accommodation ancillary to the main dwellinghouse or represents a self- contained residential unit amounting to a separate dwellinghouse.”

“The outbuilding would remain physically separate from the main dwelling and can be accessed independently via the side access. It also retains bedroom, shower, living and laundry facilities and associated external patio areas. These factors indicate a degree of separation but are not in and of themselves determinative of a separate dwelling use.”

“The Committee considered a report of the Strategic Lead for Planning for the use of outbuilding for use as annexe for family member (retrospective) (re-submission of application reference PL/2025/0002250/HHA). The application was recommended for approval.”

“Following consideration of the report and presentation, the Committee raised questions in respect of the intended use as an ancillary annexe accommodation seeking to ensure that the accommodation remained functionally reliant upon the main dwelling and agreed that the application be deferred to a future meeting to allow officers to seek a response to the Committee’s questions.”

“RESOLVED that Application PL/2026/0000901/HHA be deferred to a future meeting for the reasons set out above.”