®Planning appeal decision
The land and building(s) known as 198 High Road, LONDON, N22 8HH
the creation of a new dwelling at the rear of the ground floor of the property
- Authority
- London Borough of Haringey
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Jones D
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the internal works and alterations to the ground floor constitute a material change of use requiring planning permission
- Whether the breach of planning control had become immune from enforcement action due to the passage of time
- Whether the requirements of the enforcement notice are excessive
- Whether the time given to comply with the notice is too short
What decided it
The internal alterations that reduced the dwelling's floorspace by approximately one-third and changed its character from a one-bedroom unit to a studio flat constituted a material change of use creating a new planning unit, which had not been immune from enforcement action as it occurred within four years of the notice being served.
Plan policies cited: Policy D6 of the London Plan (adopted March 2021), Policy SP2 of Haringey's Local Plan Strategic Policies 2013-2026 (2017), Policy DM12 of Haringey's Development Management DPD (adopted July 2017)
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