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The Land Known As 3-7 Billet Lane, Hornchurch, Essex, RM11 1TS
Planning appeal 3291343 at The Land Known As 3-7 Billet Lane, Hornchurch, Essex, RM11 1TS (London Borough of Havering) was dismissed on 18 May 2023 by Inspector Pleasant L, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the material change of use to four self-contained flats took place before 22 December 2017 continuing for at least four years thereafter.
1. Without planning permission, the material change of use of land above shop 3-7 Billet Lane into 4 self-contained Flats (2 Studio & 2 x 1bed); and 2. Without planning permission, the construction of a rear dormer
- Authority
- London Borough of Havering
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Pleasant L
- Postcode
- RM11 1TS
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the material change of use to four self-contained flats took place before 22 December 2017 continuing for at least four years thereafter
- Whether the building operations undertaken to construct the rear dormer were substantially completed before 22 December 2017
What decided it
The appellant's evidence was insufficiently precise and unambiguous to prove on the balance of probability that either the change of use to four self-contained flats or the rear dormer construction occurred before 22 December 2017, and thus neither breach had become immune from enforcement action through the passage of four years.
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