Planning appeal decision
Land West Of Fore Street, Eastcote, London, HA5 2ND
Planning appeal 3279646 at Land West Of Fore Street, Eastcote, London, HA5 2ND (London Borough of Hillingdon) was dismissed on 1 December 2021 by Inspector Wharton T, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether or not, on the date of the LDC application, the proposed storage/installation of up to 50 shipping containers on the land was lawful for planning purposes, by virtue of it falling within the current lawfully-established and open storage Use Class B8.
Use Class B8 – open storage
- Authority
- London Borough of Hillingdon
- Appeal type
- ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- employment-industrial · Minor general industry/storage/warehousing
- Inspector
- Wharton T
- Postcode
- HA5 2ND
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether or not, on the date of the LDC application, the proposed storage/installation of up to 50 shipping containers on the land was lawful for planning purposes, by virtue of it falling within the current lawfully-established and open storage Use Class B8
What decided it
The positioning of up to 50 shipping containers on the land, anchored by their own weight and creating contiguous rows of temporary buildings across the site, constitutes a building operation that materially alters the character of the lawful Class B8 open storage use and therefore falls outside the scope of that established use.
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