Planning appeal decision
Land Adjacent to Romani, St Albans Road, South Mimms, Herfordshire, EN6 3PP
Planning appeal 3260982 at Land Adjacent to Romani, St Albans Road, South Mimms, Herfordshire, EN6 3PP (Hertsmere Borough Council) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 6 April 2023 by Inspector Lewis D, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the alleged use of the land for commercial purposes with associated storage of containers, plant and machinery has occurred as a matter of fact (ground (b)).
Without planning permission, the change of use of land for commercial purposes with associated fencing, installation of hardstanding and storage of containers, plants and machinery
- Authority
- Hertsmere Borough Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- employment-industrial · Change of use
- Inspector
- Lewis D
- Postcode
- EN6 3PP
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the alleged use of the land for commercial purposes with associated storage of containers, plant and machinery has occurred as a matter of fact (ground (b))
What decided it
The Inspector could not correct the enforcement notice's description of the breach under section 176(1) of the 1990 Act without causing injustice to the parties, rendering the notice invalid.
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