Planning appeal decision
Moate Farm, Stodmarsh Road, Canterbury, Kent, CT3 4AP
Planning appeal 3281250 at Moate Farm, Stodmarsh Road, Canterbury, Kent, CT3 4AP (Canterbury City Council) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 23 February 2024 by Inspector Pleasant L, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the enforcement notice was a nullity.
Without planning permission, the change of use of the land for the stationing of 37no. additional static caravans for residential use
- Authority
- Canterbury City Council
- Appeal type
- major · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- caravan-gypsy · Major traveller and caravan pitches
- Inspector
- Pleasant L
- Postcode
- CT3 4AP
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the enforcement notice was a nullity
- Whether the identified errors in the notice could be corrected without causing injustice to any party
What decided it
The proposed correction to the enforcement notice could not be made without causing injustice to the Brown family, who owned part of the land but were not parties to the appeal.
What the Inspector cited
- Judgments
- Rawlins and Others v Secretary of State for the Environment and Tandridge District Council [1990] 60 P & C R 413; Miller Mead v Minister of Housing and Local Government [1963] 2 WLR 225
How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.
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