Planning appeal decision
Land Adjacent Puckpool House, Puckpool Hill, Ryde, Isle of Wight, PO33 1PJ
Planning appeal 3251025 at Land Adjacent Puckpool House, Puckpool Hill, Ryde, Isle of Wight, PO33 1PJ (Isle of Wight Council) was allowed in part (a split decision) on 31 August 2021 by Inspector Hocking P, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the largest outbuilding was substantially completed before 7 February 2016 such that enforcement action was time-barred.
Without planning permission, operational development by the unauthorised construction of three outbuildings, the unauthorised construction of two main front boundary walls that are in excess of one metre in height and the unauthorised construction of three brick and render entrance piers that are in excess of one metre in height
- Authority
- Isle of Wight Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- other · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Hocking P
- Postcode
- PO33 1PJ
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the largest outbuilding was substantially completed before 7 February 2016 such that enforcement action was time-barred
- Whether the steps required by the enforcement notice exceed what is necessary to remedy the breach of planning control
- Whether the time periods for compliance with the enforcement notice are reasonable
What decided it
The date-stamped photographs taken by the Council on 13 April 2016 demonstrating the building was still under construction, contradicting the appellant's assertion of completion by February 2016.
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