®Planning appeal decision
Oak Acres Farm, Selsey Road, Hunston, PO20 1AU
the material change of use of the land to a general storage use including the storage of vehicles, trailers, tyres, wheels, wheeled bins, boxes, buckets, plastics, tins, household goods, shopping trolleys, commercial goods, wooden pallets, concrete, hardcore, sheds insulation materials, building rubble, and sundry items
- Authority
- Chichester District Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- other · Change of use
- Inspector
- Symons G
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Appeal A Ground (b): whether as a matter of fact the material change of use to general storage has occurred
- Appeal A Ground (c): whether there has been a breach of planning control
- Appeal A Ground (f): whether the requirements of the enforcement notice exceed what is necessary to remedy the breach
- Appeal A Ground (g): whether the compliance period is unduly short
- Appeal B Ground (a): character and appearance of the area
- Appeal B Ground (b): whether as a matter of fact and degree the containers are buildings
- Appeal B Ground (c): whether there has been a breach of planning control
- Appeal B Ground (f): whether the requirement to remove containers exceeds what is necessary to remedy the breach
- Appeal B Ground (g): whether the compliance period is unreasonable
What decided it
The Inspector found that both the material change of use to general storage and the erection of the container buildings constituted breaches of planning control for which no permission had been granted, and that the enforcement notices appropriately required cessation of the use and removal of the structures to remedy these breaches.
Plan policies cited: Policy 1, Policy 2, Policy 45
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