Planning appeal decision
The Land Situate and Known As Land Adjacent to 58 Beckett Road, Wheatley, Doncaster, DN2 4AJ
Planning appeal 3255529 at The Land Situate and Known As Land Adjacent to 58 Beckett Road, Wheatley, Doncaster, DN2 4AJ (Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 29 June 2021 by Inspector Madge M, following a hearing.
without planning permission a change of use of the land to an open air tyre storage facility
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- employment-industrial · Change of use
- Inspector
- Madge M
- Postcode
- DN2 4AJ
What decided it
The appellants proved on the balance of probability that the ancillary open-air tyre storage use had continued without material interruption for more than 10 years before the notice was issued, establishing immunity under ground (d).
What the Inspector cited
- Judgments
- Burdle v Secretary of State for the Environment [1972] 1 WLR 1207 (Div Court); Thurrock BC v SSETR & Holding [2002] EWCA Civ 226; Swale BC v FSS & Lee [2005] EWCA Civ 1568
How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.
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