®Planning appeal decision
Land north of Green Lane, Owston, Leicestershire, LE15 8DX
without planning permission, the material change of use of the Land from agriculture to the stationing of a mobile home/caravan and associated structures for residential purposes in the approximate location hatched black on the plan
- Authority
- Harborough District Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- caravan-gypsy · Change of use
- Inspector
- Rogers B
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the breach of planning control alleged in the enforcement notice has occurred as a matter of fact (ground b)
- Whether there has been a breach of planning control (ground c)
- Whether at the time the notice was issued it was too late to take enforcement action (ground d)
- Whether the requirements of the notice are no more than is needed to remedy the breach (ground f)
What decided it
The appellants failed to demonstrate a continuous breach of planning control for the 10-year period required under ground (d), as the only evidence of pre-2019 occupation was the land owner's vague reference to "on and off" use with no corroboration of continuous residential occupation.
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