Planning appeal decision
115 Brierton Lane, Hartlepool, TS25 5DR
Planning appeal 3287891 at 115 Brierton Lane, Hartlepool, TS25 5DR (Hartlepool Borough Council *) was dismissed on 23 February 2022 by Inspector Gray E, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the breach of planning control alleged in the enforcement notice, being the material change of use of a residential property to a mixed use residential with plant and machinery hire and sales, has occurred as a matter of fact.
Without planning permission, the change of use of a residential property to a mixed use residential with plant and machinery hire and sales
- Authority
- Hartlepool Borough Council *
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- employment-industrial · Change of use
- Inspector
- Gray E
- Postcode
- TS25 5DR
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the breach of planning control alleged in the enforcement notice, being the material change of use of a residential property to a mixed use residential with plant and machinery hire and sales, has occurred as a matter of fact
What decided it
The appellants' own admissions combined with photographic evidence of significant intensification of business use involving multiple vehicles, machinery, and customer visits established that a material change of use had occurred, which the appellants failed to disprove on the balance of probabilities.
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