®Planning appeal decision
Frog Island, Ferry Lane, Rainham, Essex, RM13 9YH
Planning appeal 3305409 at Frog Island, Ferry Lane, Rainham, Essex, RM13 9YH (London Borough of Havering) was allowed in part (a split decision) on 1 April 2025 by Inspector Dignan P, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Ground (c): whether the matters enforced against constitute a breach of planning control.
Use for the storage of materials, including vehicles, equipment and inert waste, and activities associated with a waste management facility, namely the importing, processing and exporting of inert waste materials, together with operational development comprising stacked shipping containers as boundary treatment
- Authority
- London Borough of Havering
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- minerals-waste · Change of use
- Inspector
- Dignan P
- Postcode
- RM13 9YH
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Ground (c): whether the matters enforced against constitute a breach of planning control
- Ground (a): whether planning permission should be granted for the matters enforced against
- Ground (f): whether the steps required by the notice exceed what is necessary to remedy the breach
- Ground (g): whether the period for compliance is reasonable
What decided it
The appellant's demonstrated ability, evidenced by compliance with the Environment Agency's permit and enforcement notice withdrawal, to operate the waste use without causing unacceptable dust impacts, secured through comprehensive planning conditions, was decisive in permitting the use, while the unremedied harm to local character from the shipping containers was decisive in refusing that element.
the acceptability of the use, once secured by comprehensive conditions controlling dust and other impacts, was granted permission, but the unacceptable harm to local character caused by the operational development (shipping containers) was not outweighed and that element was refused
What the Inspector cited
- Judgments
- R (oao) East Sussex CC v SSCLG [2009] EWHC 3841 (Admin)
How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.
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