Planning appeal decision
41A Burley Road, Bockhampton, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 7AJ
Planning appeal 3265569 at 41A Burley Road, Bockhampton, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 7AJ (Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole) was dismissed on 4 August 2021 by Inspector Symons G, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the single storey ground floor addition was substantially completed more than four years before the enforcement notice was issued, such that enforcement action was time-barred under section 171B(1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.
Without planning permission, the erection of a single storey ground floor addition in the approximate position hatched black on the attached plan
- Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Symons G
- Postcode
- BH23 7AJ
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the single storey ground floor addition was substantially completed more than four years before the enforcement notice was issued, such that enforcement action was time-barred under section 171B(1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990
What decided it
The appellants' own builder's statutory declaration that the walls and roof were substantially completed between 18 November and 23 December 2016, which is after the material date of 25 November 2016.
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