Land and Buildings at Blunts Farm, Coopersale Lane, Theydon Bois, Epping , CM16 7NT

Planning appeal 3297662 at Land and Buildings at Blunts Farm, Coopersale Lane, Theydon Bois, Epping , CM16 7NT (Epping Forest District Council) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 9 September 2024 by Inspector Perkins L, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the enforcement notice states the matters constituting the breach of planning control with sufficient clarity, and whether any defect can be corrected without causing injustice to the appellant or the local planning authority.

Material change of use of the site and buildings to commercial and business uses; laying of road planings to create an accessway, laying of hard surfacing, and construction of a breeze wall over 2 metres in height (without planning permission)

Authority: Epping Forest District Council
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Hearing
Development: employment-industrial · Change of use
Inspector: Perkins L
Postcode: CM16 7NT

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the enforcement notice states the matters constituting the breach of planning control with sufficient clarity, and whether any defect can be corrected without causing injustice to the appellant or the local planning authority

What decided it

The enforcement notice's allegation of the breach was too vague and could not be corrected to reflect a mixed use without causing injustice to the appellant.

What the Inspector cited

Judgments: Ikram v Secretary of State for CLG [2021] EWCA Civ 2

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