®Planning appeal decision
Land at The Cottage, The Street, St James South Elmham, Suffolk, IP19 0HL
Without planning permission, the unauthorised change of use from the permitted established mixed use of residential/agriculture/'builders' yard, and as a base for a plant hire operation and use as a 'haulage yard', (as allowed at appeal 5th November 1997 and cross hatched on the attached plan), to a mixed residential/agriculture/industrial (B2)/sui generis use including a waste transfer station, with the sorting and processing of inert waste and storage of waste, comprising of wood, building and demolition waste
- Authority
- Suffolk County Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- minerals-waste · Change of use
- Inspector
- Lewis D
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the alleged material change of use constitutes a breach of planning control
- Whether the unauthorised mixed use has become immune from enforcement action by passage of time
- Whether the requirements of the notice are excessive
- Whether the periods for compliance are reasonable
What decided it
The substantial evidence of waste materials being deposited, stored and processed on the land in large volumes from 2017 onwards constituted a material change of use to a waste transfer facility as a primary use, for which no planning permission had been granted.
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.