Planning appeal decision
22 Wellesbourne Road, Birmingham, B20 3TH
Planning appeal 3279077 at 22 Wellesbourne Road, Birmingham, B20 3TH (Birmingham City Council) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 23 February 2022 by Inspector Hartley D, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the rear extension enforced against was substantially completed more than four years before the date of issue of the enforcement notice (16 June 2021), so as to be immune from enforcement.
without planning permission, the erection of a side and rear dormer in the approximate position marked in green on the attached plan
- Authority
- Birmingham City Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Hartley D
- Postcode
- B20 3TH
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the rear extension enforced against was substantially completed more than four years before the date of issue of the enforcement notice (16 June 2021), so as to be immune from enforcement
What decided it
The building receipts and evidence of window and roof installation in May 2017, coupled with statutory declarations from neighbours confirming completion in May 2017, established on the balance of probability that the development was substantially completed more than four years before the enforcement notice was issued.
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