Land to the North West of Plough Orchards, Plough Orchards, Weston Turville, HP22 5BG

for storage of builders’ waste soil, construction material, equipment and storage containers

Authority: Buckinghamshire Council - Aylesbury Area *
Appeal type: ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
Procedure: Inquiry
Development: other · Change of use
Inspector: Dudley G

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

What is and has been the planning unit/s from around 2006.
Whether the appellants have demonstrated a continuous use of the appeal site for 10 years.
Whether the appeal site benefited from permitted development rights.
Whether there has been deliberate deception in relation to the use of the site.

What decided it

The appellants failed to demonstrate, on the balance of probability, a continuous 10-year use of the appeal site for the storage described, separate from permitted development activity associated with adjoining housing construction.

Judgments cited: R(Hunter Hall Partnership) v First Secretary of State [2006] EWHC 3482 (Admin)

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