Planning appeal decision
Mount Pleasant Farm, 66 - 68 Main Street, Pymoor, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB6 2DY
Planning appeal 3292479 at Mount Pleasant Farm, 66 - 68 Main Street, Pymoor, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB6 2DY (East Cambridgeshire District Council) was decided (invalid) on 18 July 2023 by Inspector Watson S, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the enforcement notice adequately specifies the breach of planning control and the requirements to remedy it.
- without planning permission, the material change of use of the land from agricultural use to a mixed use of leisure and recreational and use for residential purposes
- Authority
- East Cambridgeshire District Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- other · Change of use
- Inspector
- Watson S
- Postcode
- CB6 2DY
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the enforcement notice adequately specifies the breach of planning control and the requirements to remedy it
What decided it
The enforcement notice contained fundamental defects in clarity and specification that could not be corrected without risk of injustice, rendering it a nullity.
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