Planning appeal decision
Wolverhampton Lifting Ltd, Unit 9A Arrow Industrial Estate, Straight Road (Aka Land on the South West Side), Willenhall, WV12 5AE
Planning appeal 3295849 at Wolverhampton Lifting Ltd, Unit 9A Arrow Industrial Estate, Straight Road (Aka Land on the South West Side), Willenhall, WV12 5AE (Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council) was dismissed on 20 July 2022 by Inspector McEntee K, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the compliance period of 2 months for ceasing the waste storage use and removing materials should be extended to 9 months.
Without planning permission on the Land, the material change in use from general industrial and storage and distribution uses, to the use of the Land for the purposes of storage of mixed waste materials”
- Authority
- Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- minerals-waste · Change of use
- Inspector
- McEntee K
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the compliance period of 2 months for ceasing the waste storage use and removing materials should be extended to 9 months
What decided it
The appellant had already made substantial progress in clearing the site over 4 months with an instructed contractor, making a 6-month compliance period from the decision date reasonable and proportionate.
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