®Planning appeal decision
Booth Boxing Gym, 12-18 High Street, Merstham, Redhill, RH1 3EA
Planning appeal 3306996 at Booth Boxing Gym, 12-18 High Street, Merstham, Redhill, RH1 3EA (Reigate and Banstead Borough Council) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 5 November 2024 by Inspector Douglas L, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the enforcement notice is valid and sufficiently clear in its description of the alleged breach of planning control and the steps required for compliance.
‘Without planning permission, failure to implement permission 19/01016/F in accordance with the approved plans and thereby breaching conditions 1 and 3 of that permission, including the partial demolition of architecturally important parts of the property within the Merstham Conservation Area and the removal of the shopfront, all of which were shown on the approved plans to be retained’
- Authority
- Reigate and Banstead Borough Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- other · Major retail and services
- Inspector
- Douglas L
- Postcode
- RH1 3EA
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the enforcement notice is valid and sufficiently clear in its description of the alleged breach of planning control and the steps required for compliance
What decided it
The enforcement notice does not specify with sufficient clarity the alleged breach of planning control or the steps required for compliance, and the errors cannot be corrected without causing injustice to the parties.
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