Planning appeal decision
1 Hunger Hill Avenue, Bolton, BL3 4SD
Planning appeal 3294318 at 1 Hunger Hill Avenue, Bolton, BL3 4SD (Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council) was dismissed on 22 December 2022 by Inspector Franks Z, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the single storey side extension was substantially completed more than four years before the enforcement notice was issued on 11 February 2022, such that enforcement action was time-barred under section 171B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.
without planning permission, the erection of a single storey extension at the side of the property
- Authority
- Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- other · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Franks Z
- Postcode
- BL3 4SD
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the single storey side extension was substantially completed more than four years before the enforcement notice was issued on 11 February 2022, such that enforcement action was time-barred under section 171B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990
What decided it
The appellant failed to provide sufficient evidence to prove on the balance of probabilities that the single storey extension was substantially completed more than four years before the enforcement notice was issued, and therefore the time-bar defence under section 171B did not apply.
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