Planning appeal decision
Land Known As Plot 10, Land on the East Side of Dukes Hill, Coolham Road, Thakeham, West Sussex, RH20 2LT
Planning appeal 3263275 at Land Known As Plot 10, Land on the East Side of Dukes Hill, Coolham Road, Thakeham, West Sussex, RH20 2LT (Horsham District Council) was allowed in part (a split decision) on 6 September 2021 by Inspector Hocking P, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether there has been a breach of planning control by excavation of the land and importation of material to form a hardstanding (ground c).
Without planning permission, the excavation of the Land and consolidation of imported material to form a hardstanding
- Authority
- Horsham District Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- other · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- Hocking P
- Postcode
- RH20 2LT
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether there has been a breach of planning control by excavation of the land and importation of material to form a hardstanding (ground c)
- Whether the requirements of the enforcement notice exceed what is necessary to remedy the breach of planning control (ground f)
What decided it
The works undertaken were of an extent that amounts to an operation normally undertaken by a person carrying on business as a builder, constituting engineering operations and development liable to enforcement action.
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