Planning appeal decision
Land at Plots 33 to 34 Roydon Lodge Chalet Estate, Roydon, CM19 5EF
Planning appeal 3215177 at Land at Plots 33 to 34 Roydon Lodge Chalet Estate, Roydon, CM19 5EF (Epping Forest District Council) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 13 May 2022 by Inspector Lewis D, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the alleged breach of planning control had occurred by the date of issue of the enforcement notice, that is 28 September 2018.
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
- Postcode
- CM19 5EF
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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