®Planning appeal decision
Land at 691 Finchley Road, LONDON, NW2 2JN
the use of a single storey flat roof garden building at the rear of the site as a separate dwelling house in breach of condition 4 of planning approval 18/1533/FUL (30.05.2018) which says: The use of the garden offices hereby permitted shall at all times be ancillary to and occupied in conjunction with the ground floor flats of the main buildings as detailed in approved drawing 691FR-PP1-01 Rev C and shall not at any time be occupied as a separate unit, dwelling, or commercial/ independent office
- Authority
- London Borough of Barnet
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Satheesan R
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the alleged breach of planning control (material change of use of the garden building to a dwelling) has occurred as a matter of fact
- Whether the steps required by the enforcement notice exceed what is necessary to remedy the breach of planning control
What decided it
The appellant's own admission that separate residential units were functioning at the outbuilding for a period, combined with the finding that the bathroom and fences were integral to sustaining the unlawful use and necessary to remedy the breach.
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