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Dismissed31 January 20243304656

Sumet, Mucking Wharf Road, Stanford-Le-Hope, Essex, SS17 0RN

Planning appeal 3304656 at Sumet, Mucking Wharf Road, Stanford-Le-Hope, Essex, SS17 0RN (Thurrock Borough Council) was dismissed on 31 January 2024 by Inspector Preston C, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether lawful use rights as a caravan site had been established as a result of the passage of time in relation to use of the land in breach of condition 1 of planning permission 00/00170/FUL.

described on the application form as: Caravan site

Authority
Thurrock Borough Council
Appeal type
ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
caravan-gypsy · Minor traveller and caravan pitches
Inspector
Preston C
Postcode
SS17 0RN

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether lawful use rights as a caravan site had been established as a result of the passage of time in relation to use of the land in breach of condition 1 of planning permission 00/00170/FUL
  • If such use rights had been established, whether they were lost when the caravan was removed and a dwellinghouse erected, or whether there is a right of reversion following compliance with the enforcement notice served in 2020

What decided it

The appellant failed to provide sufficiently clear, unambiguous and precise evidence to demonstrate that the site had been continuously used as a caravan site in breach of condition 1 for any ten-year period from April 2003, and therefore failed to establish that lawful use rights had been acquired by the passage of time.

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