Planning appeal decision
12 Portsdown Hill Road, Havant, PO9 3JX
Planning appeal 3290896 at 12 Portsdown Hill Road, Havant, PO9 3JX (Havant Borough Council) was dismissed on 26 July 2022 by Inspector Hocking P, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the alleged breach of planning control, namely the mixed use to include B2 car repairs and associated hard surface parking area, has occurred as a matter of fact.
Within the last 10 years and without planning permission, a material change of use to a mixed use consisting of B2 car repairs and C3 residential and engineering operations to create a hard surface parking area which forms part and parcel of the mixed use
- Authority
- Havant Borough Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- employment-industrial · Change of use
- Inspector
- Hocking P
- Postcode
- PO9 3JX
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the alleged breach of planning control, namely the mixed use to include B2 car repairs and associated hard surface parking area, 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 failed to demonstrate on the balance of probabilities that the mixed use comprising B2 car repairs and associated hard surface parking area had not occurred as a matter of fact, given the evidence of company vehicles, the substantial hardstanding created, and the number of vehicles present at the site.
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