Man told he can't rent out his huge garden shed to tourists

HOMEOWNER has had his plans to rent out a huge shed in his garden to tourists refused by local and national planners.

- JONATHON HILL AND TWM OWEN

Lyndon Hawkins sought to split the outbuilding, which he built in 2020 at his home in Pen Y Wern Road, Penperlleni, Monmouthshire, and which currently serves as a workshop and storage space, into two holiday lets.

But earlier this year, his plans were rejected by Monmouthshire county council's planning department, leading to him appealing to Planning and Environment Decisions Wales (PEDW).

He told PEDW that an outbuilding had existed within the grounds of his semidetached property for 70 years, and submitted an Ordnance Survey map from 1971 clearly displaying a structure there.

He also supplied independent inspector Zoe Baxter, who was appointed by PEDW to examine the appeal, with Google Street View photographs from 2009 and 2011 showing an outbuilding next to the southwestern boundary of his garden.