Planning appeal decision
Land off Blacker Lane, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF4 3DW
Planning appeal 3282083 at Land off Blacker Lane, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF4 3DW (Wakefield Metropolitan District Council) was dismissed on 29 April 2022 by Inspector Gray E, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the time given to comply with the enforcement notice is too short (ground (g)).
Without planning permission: a material change of use of land from agriculture to storage of demolition waste, plant, machinery, vehicles, metal sheets and frames, timber, beer barrels, oil drums, mobile concrete barriers and siting of shipping containers, portable office and associated operational development involving the excavation of land, installation of concrete foundations, the installation of drainage and other pipes and erection of a shed on the land in the Green Belt (in the locations shown in the plan attached to the enforcemen t notice)
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- minerals-waste · Change of use
- Inspector
- Gray E
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the time given to comply with the enforcement notice is too short (ground (g))
What decided it
The passage of time between the enforcement notice and the appeal decision meant the winter weather constraint no longer applied, and the appellants provided no other substantive objection to the 16-week period.
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