Planning appeal decision
The Bungalow The Causeway, Mark, Highbridge, TA9 4QJ
Planning appeal 3300124 at The Bungalow The Causeway, Mark, Highbridge, TA9 4QJ (Sedgemoor District Council *) was dismissed on 28 February 2024 by Inspector Blackwell J, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether any failure to comply with condition 2 of the Original Permission was immune from enforcement, and therefore lawful for the purpose of the 1990 Act, as at the date of application.
for the existing use of dwelling as residential without any agricultural or horticultural tie. Summary
- Authority
- Sedgemoor District Council *
- Appeal type
- ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- other · Change of use
- Inspector
- Blackwell J
- Postcode
- TA9 4QJ
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether any failure to comply with condition 2 of the Original Permission was immune from enforcement, and therefore lawful for the purpose of the 1990 Act, as at the date of application
What decided it
The appellants failed to provide sufficiently precise and unambiguous evidence to demonstrate a continuous and uninterrupted ten-year breach of condition 2, particularly given gaps in evidence regarding the Gowans' employment history and indications of possible involvement in the horticultural business.
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