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Allowed26 April 20233273837

2 Keepers Cottage, Hurstwood, Platt, Sevenoaks, TN15 8TA

Planning appeal 3273837 at 2 Keepers Cottage, Hurstwood, Platt, Sevenoaks, TN15 8TA (Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council) was allowed on 26 April 2023 by Inspector Preston C, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the Council's decision to refuse to grant an LDC for the building as depicted on that plan was well-founded.

The erection of the building subject of EN1 issued on 16 June 2009

Authority
Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council
Appeal type
ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
Procedure
Inquiry
Development
residential · Householder developments
Inspector
Preston C
Postcode
TN15 8TA

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • whether the Council's decision to refuse to grant an LDC for the building as depicted on that plan was well-founded

What decided it

Corroborating contemporaneous evidence, particularly the April 2011 council committee report and the 2011 appeal Inspector's decision, supported the appellant's account that the enforcement notice had been complied with within the required six-month period.

What the Inspector cited

Judgments
Gravesham BC v SSE & O'Brien [1983] JPL 306

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