Planning appeal decision
Kingsley Rest Home, 7 Southlands Avenue, Newcastle, ST5 8BZ
Planning appeal 3294161 at Kingsley Rest Home, 7 Southlands Avenue, Newcastle, ST5 8BZ (Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council) was dismissed on 26 August 2022 by Inspector Griffin E, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the requirements of the enforcement notice exceed what is necessary to achieve its purpose.
Without planning permission, the installation of timber board fencing within the front garden ("the Development") on the Land
- Authority
- Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- other · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Griffin E
- Postcode
- ST5 8BZ
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the requirements of the enforcement notice exceed what is necessary to achieve its purpose
What decided it
The removal of the existing fencing is not excessive to remedy the breach of planning control, and proposing alternative fencing does not undermine this conclusion.
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