®Planning appeal decision
Notice upheld11 December 20233305143
Willow End Farm, Approach Road, BILLERICAY, Essex, CM11 2UT
without planning permission, the erection of a building (“the Building” – shown edged and hatched black on the Notice plan) on the Land
- Authority
- Basildon District Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- employment-industrial · Change of use
- Inspector
- Brownless E
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the material change of use from residential to mixed residential and steel fabrication business use had occurred (ground b)
- Whether the steps required by the enforcement notice exceed what is necessary to remedy the breach (ground f)
- Whether the four month compliance period is less than should reasonably be allowed (ground g)
What decided it
The appellant's evidence was inconsistent and ambiguous, and failed to rebut the Council's photographic evidence and the appellant's own prior planning application statement demonstrating that a material change of use to mixed residential and business use had occurred.
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