Trixies Stud, Beeches Road, Rawreth, Wickford, Essex, SS11 8TJ

Planning appeal 3227438 at Trixies Stud, Beeches Road, Rawreth, Wickford, Essex, SS11 8TJ (Rochford District Council) was dismissed on 10 August 2021 by Inspector Savage M, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether, at the date the notice was issued, enforcement action could no longer be taken in respect of the breach (ground (d)).

without planning permission: 1. The creation of a bund comprising waste material (trommel fines) to a height of approximately 2m and a length of approximately 63m to the North West and approximately 90m to the North East boundary (as shown hatched on the attached plan). 2. The raising of land levels by deposition of waste material (trommel fines) on the land to a depth of approximately 0.5m, over an area measuring approximately 56 metres x 73 metres. (Shown cross hatched on the attached plan)

Authority: Rochford District Council
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Hearing
Development: minerals-waste · Other minor developments
Inspector: Savage M
Postcode: SS11 8TJ

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether, at the date the notice was issued, enforcement action could no longer be taken in respect of the breach (ground (d))
Whether the steps required by the notice exceed what is necessary to remedy the breach (ground (f))
Whether the period for compliance falls short of what should reasonably be allowed (ground (g))

What decided it

The appellant failed to prove the waste material breach occurred more than four years before the notice was issued, and could not show the required remedial steps were excessive or the compliance period too short.

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