®Planning appeal decision
Dismissed1 October 20213268888
680 Forest Road, Walthamstow, LONDON, E17 3ED
use of ground and first floor of the property as a house in multiple occupation (HMO) for 5 persons and use of the loft area as studio flat
- Authority
- Waltham Forest London Borough Council
- Appeal type
- ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Whitfield J
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the Council's decision to refuse the application for a certificate of lawful use or development was well-founded, specifically whether at the date the application was made no enforcement action could have been taken in respect of the use of the ground and first floor as an HMO for 5 persons and use of the loft area as studio flat because the time for enforcement action had expired
What decided it
The appellant failed to demonstrate on the balance of probabilities that the material changes of use had occurred and continued for the requisite enforcement periods, and the use would have required planning permission for which none was granted.
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