Planning appeal decision
67 Bell Farm Avenue, Dagenham, RM10 7BB
Planning appeal 3247404 at 67 Bell Farm Avenue, Dagenham, RM10 7BB (London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Council) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 11 March 2022 by Inspector Thomas N, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the enforcement notice correctly alleges the breach of planning control.
without planning permission, the unauthorised material change of use of a single-family dwelling house to a house of multiple occupation
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Thomas N
- Postcode
- RM10 7BB
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the enforcement notice correctly alleges the breach of planning control
What decided it
The enforcement notice contained an essential factual error in failing to identify the self-contained flat use within the site, and correction of this error would have caused injustice to the parties.
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