®Planning appeal decision
Notice varied and upheld24 May 20243313368
Land at Home Farm, Mount Skippett, Ramsden, Oxfordshire, OX7 3AP
without planning permission a material change of use of the Land from a taxi business with ancillary car repairs to a mixed use of vehicle car servicing and repairs and vehicle sales
- Authority
- West Oxfordshire District Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- employment-industrial · Change of use
- Inspector
- Baxter C
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Ground (c): whether the alleged mixed use of vehicle car servicing and repairs and vehicle sales constitutes a breach of planning control
- Ground (d): whether the alleged mixed use had been carried out continuously for more than 10 years before the notice was issued so as to be immune from enforcement
- Ground (f): whether the requirements of the notice exceed what is necessary to remedy the breach of planning control
- Ground (g): whether the period for compliance is reasonable
What decided it
The appellant failed to produce compelling evidence that the alleged mixed use of vehicle servicing/repairs and vehicle sales had continued without significant interruption for a full 10 years before the notice was issued, and failed to show any permission authorised the use.
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