In Mrs Light’s application for a certificate of lawful development, she accepted her use of the annexe was at odds with that condition, but because the four-year period in which the council could take enforcement action had passed, the breach of the planning permission was deemed lawful.
Mr Rees claimed the longest continuous period his mother lived in the annexe was eight months, from December 2021 until September 2022.
He argued his mother’s application was “incorrect and misleading”, claiming she bought a separate property with her husband in Pandy.
He said his mother used the annexe but did not stay overnight.
Council planning officer Kate Bingham said Mr Rees did not want to make an affidavit in support of his claims contesting what his mum had declared.
Ms Bingham said Mrs Light’s statutory declaration stated she moved into the annexe in December 2019 “despite the occupier of that dwelling being the applicant’s son”.
This meant the council had “no evidence to contradict the statutory declaration and evidence provided by the applicant”, Ms Bingham said.