Queen Acre Cottage Windsor Road, Water Oakley, Windsor, SL4 5UJ

Planning appeal 3262239 at Queen Acre Cottage Windsor Road, Water Oakley, Windsor, SL4 5UJ (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead) was allowed in part (a split decision) on 8 November 2021 by Inspector Moss J, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the matters alleged in the enforcement notice constitute a breach of planning control (ground c).

Without planning permission, the material change of use of the land from a mixed use comprising dwellinghouse and agricultural land (sue generis), to a mixed use comprising dwellinghouse and the sale and display for sale of motor vehicles (sue generis); which incorporates the formation of hardstanding, to facilitate the use of the sale and display for sale of motor vehicles, and the material change of use of an existing outbuilding from incidental residential use to an office use. And. Without planning permission, the erection of an outbuilding

Authority: Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: other · Other minor developments
Inspector: Moss J

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the matters alleged in the enforcement notice constitute a breach of planning control (ground c)
Whether at the date the notice was issued enforcement action could be taken (ground d)
Whether the steps required to comply with the notice are excessive (ground f)
Whether the period specified in the notice is reasonable (ground g)

What decided it

The requirement to remove all office paraphernalia from the outbuilding was excessive because the outbuilding could lawfully be used as a home office with such furniture, interfering with the appellant's rights under section 57(4) of the 1990 Act.

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