Planning appeal decision
5 Mona Avenue, Heald Green, Stockport, SK8 3AW
Planning appeal 3269219 at 5 Mona Avenue, Heald Green, Stockport, SK8 3AW (Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council) was dismissed on 20 July 2021 by Inspector Moore D, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the material change of use took place on or before 22 January 2011 and continued without significant interruption such that enforcement action was time-barred under section 174(2)(d).
without the benefit of planning permission, the material change in the use of the land from a dwellinghouse to a mixed use as a dwellinghouse and a use for the repair of motor vehicles
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- employment-industrial · Change of use
- Inspector
- Moore D
- Postcode
- SK8 3AW
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the material change of use took place on or before 22 January 2011 and continued without significant interruption such that enforcement action was time-barred under section 174(2)(d)
What decided it
The appellant failed to demonstrate on the balance of probability that the material change of use occurred on or before 22 January 2011 and continued without significant interruption, as the evidence was incomplete and ambiguous.
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