Land at Plots 33 to 34 Roydon Lodge Chalet Estate, Roydon, CM19 5EF

Without planning permission: The material change in the use of the Land from a recreational leisure plot use to a residential use including the stationing of caravans for residential use, touring caravans and associated development, including the installation of hard standing

Authority: Epping Forest District Council
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Hearing
Development: caravan-gypsy · Change of use
Inspector: Lewis D

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the alleged breach of planning control had occurred by the date of issue of the enforcement notice, that is 28 September 2018

What decided it

Insufficient evidence that a material change of use to residential use had occurred by the date the notice was issued, and the impossibility of correcting the notice without causing injustice to the appellant.

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