Planning appeal decision
Hodge Manor Hodge Lane, Broadbottom, Hyde, SK14 6BW
Planning appeal 3274553 at Hodge Manor Hodge Lane, Broadbottom, Hyde, SK14 6BW (Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council) was dismissed on 19 August 2021 by Inspector McEntee K, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the compliance period for the enforcement notice should be extended to allow time for a retrospective planning application appeal to be determined and for specialist works to be arranged.
Without planning permission, the erection of a timber panel fence in excess of one metre high adjacent to the highway along the boundary of Hodge Manor and Hodge Lane situated to the south east of the main house on the attached Plan 1, (PLAN 1)
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- other · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- McEntee K
- Postcode
- SK14 6BW
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the compliance period for the enforcement notice should be extended to allow time for a retrospective planning application appeal to be determined and for specialist works to be arranged
What decided it
The appellant had already been afforded sufficient time (approximately 6 months total) to arrange for removal or reduction of the fence height, making extension of the compliance period unjustifiable.
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