Planning appeal decision
Homelands, Land Adjacent The Bungalow, Southminster Road, Asheldham, Southminster, CM0 7DZ
Planning appeal 3275000 at Homelands, Land Adjacent The Bungalow, Southminster Road, Asheldham, Southminster, CM0 7DZ (Maldon District Council) was decided (invalid) on 1 October 2021 by Inspector Savage M, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the enforcement notice complies with section 173 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and is sufficiently clear and unambiguous to enable the recipient to know what breach has occurred and what steps are required to remedy it.
unauthorised operational development and material change of use of land
- Authority
- Maldon District Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- caravan-gypsy · Change of use
- Inspector
- Savage M
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the enforcement notice complies with section 173 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and is sufficiently clear and unambiguous to enable the recipient to know what breach has occurred and what steps are required to remedy it
What decided it
The enforcement notice fails to comply with section 173(2) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 because it does not enable any person served with it to know with reasonable certainty what matters constitute the breach of planning control and what steps are required to remedy it, rendering it a nullity.
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