Planning appeal decision
Pollards Farm, Newchapel Road, Lingfield, Surrey, RH7 6BJ
Planning appeal 3307327 at Pollards Farm, Newchapel Road, Lingfield, Surrey, RH7 6BJ (Tandridge District Council) was dismissed on 2 November 2023 by Inspector Preston C, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the matters alleged in the enforcement notice have occurred as a matter of fact.
Without planning permission the formation of a hard surfaced vehicular access in the approximate position shown hatched in blue on the attached plan ‘B’ and including widening the vehicular access to Newchapel Road
- Authority
- Tandridge District Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- other · Other Major Developments
- Inspector
- Preston C
- Postcode
- RH7 6BJ
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the matters alleged in the enforcement notice have occurred as a matter of fact
- Whether the works constitute permitted development
- Whether the works are immune from enforcement action due to the passage of time
What decided it
Photographic evidence showing substantial new works undertaken between April 2020 and June 2021, significantly within four years of the enforcement notice being served, combined with the appellants' failure to demonstrate with sufficient clarity that the works were merely repairs to a pre-existing access.
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