Land at 262 - 264 Chertsey Lane, Staines-upon-Thames, Middlesex, TW18 3NF

the material change of use of the land from agricultural use to storage use including but not limited to unit load devices, vehicles associated with the storage use, pallets, storage containers, metal sheeting and gallery carts

Authority: Runnymede Borough Council
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Inquiry
Development: employment-industrial · Major general industry/storage/warehousing
Inspector: Braithwaite J

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the alleged breach of planning control - the material change of use of the land from agricultural use to storage use - had occurred on the date of issue of the enforcement notice (ground (b))

What decided it

The storage use on the enforced land was found to be an extension of the same, already immune, lawful storage use on adjoining land rather than a material change of use in its own right.

Judgments cited: Burdle and Williams v SSE and New Forest DC [1972] 1 WLR 1207; Hertfordshire CC v SSCLG & Metal and Waste Recycling Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 1473

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