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Quashed On Legal Grounds15 May 20243312973

Land at Twelve Acre Farm, Moor Drove (East), Hockwold Cum Wilton, Thetford, IP26 4JU

Planning appeal 3312973 at Land at Twelve Acre Farm, Moor Drove (East), Hockwold Cum Wilton, Thetford, IP26 4JU (King's Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 15 May 2024 by Inspector Brownless E, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the enforcement notice specifies with sufficient clarity the alleged breach of planning control and the steps required for compliance.

without planning permission, the unauthorised material change of use of the first floor of an agricultural building to a residential dwelling

Authority
King's Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council
Appeal type
enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
residential · Change of use
Inspector
Brownless E

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether the enforcement notice specifies with sufficient clarity the alleged breach of planning control and the steps required for compliance

What decided it

The enforcement notice failed to specify with sufficient clarity the actual breach of planning control, as it alleged only first floor conversion when the evidence suggested part of the ground floor was also included in the residential use, and correction would cause injustice to the appellant.

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