Land off Blacker Lane, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF4 3DW

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)

Authority: Wakefield Metropolitan District Council
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: minerals-waste · Not Applicable
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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