Planning appeal decision
Mount Pleasant Farm High Street, Burcott, Buckinghamshire, LU7 0JS
Planning appeal 3310131 at Mount Pleasant Farm High Street, Burcott, Buckinghamshire, LU7 0JS (Buckinghamshire Council - Aylesbury Area *) was allowed in part (a split decision) on 23 November 2023 by Inspector Blackwell J, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the development, or any part of it, was immune from enforcement at the time the enforcement notice was issued.
Without planning permission: (1) The material change of use of the Land to a mixed use of residential, equestrian, agriculture, the sale, display and storage of motor vehicles and the storage of materials; and (2) Operational development consisting of the laying of hardstanding
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- other · Change of use
- Inspector
- Blackwell J
- Postcode
- LU7 0JS
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the development, or any part of it, was immune from enforcement at the time the enforcement notice was issued
What decided it
The appellants failed to demonstrate on the balance of probability that either the material change of use or the operational development had subsisted or been substantially completed for the requisite immunity periods before the enforcement notice was issued.
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