Planning appeal decision
Land East of Warren Farm, Woburn Road, Millbrook Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK45 2HY
Planning appeal 3299695 at Land East of Warren Farm, Woburn Road, Millbrook Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK45 2HY (Central Bedfordshire) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 17 May 2024 by Inspector Hitchcock R, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the enforcement notice specifies with sufficient clarity the alleged breach of planning control, and whether any defect in the Notice could be corrected under s176(1)(a) without causing injustice to either party.
Material change of use for open storage of HGVs, trailers, skips, containers, tyres, pipework, construction plant and equipment, siting of mobile offices and metal shipping containers, and use of the land for the recovery and storage of broken motor vehicles, together with formation of a gravelled hardstanding
- Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- employment-industrial · Change of use
- Inspector
- Hitchcock R
- Postcode
- MK45 2HY
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the enforcement notice specifies with sufficient clarity the alleged breach of planning control, and whether any defect in the Notice could be corrected under s176(1)(a) without causing injustice to either party.
What decided it
The mixed-use allegation in the enforcement notice was found to be incorrect and incapable of correction without causing injustice to the parties, so the notice was invalid.
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