Land to the North of Nutley Dean Business Park, Smalls Hill Road, Norwood Hill, Horley, Surrey, RH6 0HR

Planning appeal 3233726 at Land to the North of Nutley Dean Business Park, Smalls Hill Road, Norwood Hill, Horley, Surrey, RH6 0HR (Reigate and Banstead Borough Council) was allowed on 12 October 2021 by Inspector Walker A, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the matters stated in the notice had not occurred as a matter of fact on the date it was issued (ground (b)).

Without planning permission, the material change of use of the land from agricultural land within the designated Green Belt, to land used for storage. Without planning permission, the development of hardstanding areas and bunding measuring in excess of 2m in height and associated storage of shipping containers, building materials, objects and debris all associated with the change in use of the land in the approximate position hatched black on the plan attached to the notice

Authority: Reigate and Banstead Borough Council
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Hearing
Development: employment-industrial · Change of use
Inspector: Walker A
Postcode: RH6 0HR

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the matters stated in the notice had not occurred as a matter of fact on the date it was issued (ground (b))

What decided it

The Council's own evidence showed the pre-existing use of the land was a mixed agricultural, B2 and B8 use rather than solely agricultural, making the notice's factual allegation of a change of use from agricultural to storage incorrect.

What the Inspector cited

Judgments: Burdle & Williams v SSE & New Forest RDC [1972] 1 WLR 1207

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