®Planning appeal decision
Land at Greenacres, Bassetts Lane, Willingale, Ongar, CM5 0QL
Without planning permission: i) The change of use of the land to create a new planning unit for use as caravan site for use by Gypsy's and Travellers (the "Unauthorised Use); ii) The laying of hardstanding in the approximate location shown hatched black on the attached plan; iii) The formation of a new vehicular access in the approximate location marked A on the attached plan accessed off Bassetts Lane
- Authority
- Epping Forest District Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- caravan-gypsy · Major traveller and caravan pitches
- Inspector
- Lewis D
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the enforcement notice is a nullity because it is so defective on its face that it does not tell the recipients fairly what they have done wrong and what they must do to remedy it
What decided it
The fundamental and unresolved ambiguity over the identification of the land and the description of the alleged breach of planning control, which meant the notice failed the Miller-Mead fairness test.
Judgments cited: Miller-Mead v Minister of Housing and Local Government [1963] 2 WLR 225
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