Parker Hannifin Plc, Parker House Maylands Avenue, Hemel Hempstead Industrial Estate, Hemel Hempstead, HP2 4SJ

Planning appeal 3261710 at Parker Hannifin Plc, Parker House Maylands Avenue, Hemel Hempstead Industrial Estate, Hemel Hempstead, HP2 4SJ (Dacorum Borough Council) was dismissed on 5 August 2021 by Inspector Walker A, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The main issue is whether the deemed refusal by the Council was well-founded, based on a position that it had refused the application for prior approval 4/01588/19/OPA by a decision notice dated 23 August 2019 (disputed by the appellant) with the consequence that none of the events specified in paragraph W(11) of Schedule 2, Part 3 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) (GPDO) have occurred.

conversion of office building for residential use

Authority: Dacorum Borough Council
Appeal type: ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
Procedure: Inquiry
Development: residential · Householder developments
Inspector: Walker A
Postcode: HP2 4SJ

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

The main issue is whether the deemed refusal by the Council was well-founded, based on a position that it had refused the application for prior approval 4/01588/19/OPA by a decision notice dated 23 August 2019 (disputed by the appellant) with the consequence that none of the events specified in paragraph W(11) of Schedule 2, Part 3 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) (GPDO) have occurred.

What decided it

The Council's 23 August 2019 document was a valid and effective refusal of the prior approval application which remained legally effective as it was never challenged or quashed by the appellant.

What the Inspector cited

Judgments: Dunnett Investments Ltd v Secretary of State [2017] EWCA 192; R (Thornton Hall Hotel Ltd) v Wirral MBC [2018] EWHC 560 (Admin); R (oao Smolas) v Herefordshire Council [2021] EWHC 1663 (Admin); New World Payphones v Westminster City Council [2019] EWCA Civ.2250

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.

See how each was applied

The decision letter

Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

29 other decided appeals within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision

An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter — Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.

Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app — Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.

Start your free trial

More decisions in Dacorum

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2021

Dismissed26 October 20266003892
Bulbourne Wood, New Road, Northchurch, Berkhamsted, HP4 1LN
Invalid20 October 20266011032
Greymantle, Hempstead Road, Bovingdon, HP3 0HF
Invalid16 October 20266011849
Greymantle, Hempstead Road, Bovingdon, HP3 0HF
Allowed15 October 20266012966
126 Bennetts End Road, Hemel Hempstead, HP3 8DZ
Allowed14 October 20266006896
Apsley Depot, Ebberns Road, Apsley, HP3 9RE

The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.