71 Sandwich Road, Ash, Kent, CT3 2AH

Planning appeal 3313659 at 71 Sandwich Road, Ash, Kent, CT3 2AH (Dover District Council) was allowed in part (a split decision) on 13 June 2023 by Inspector Jones R, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the breach of planning control alleged in the enforcement notice has occurred as a matter of fact (ground b).

without planning permission the material change of use of the land from a single family dwellinghouse to a mixed use as a single family dwellinghouse and a contractors yard, the storage of plant, machinery and materials and the carrying out of facilitating operational development comprising the laying of hard surface track, construction of a car park, the siting of shipping containers for the storage of tools, plant and equipment for contractors use and the erection of screening

Authority: Dover District Council
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: employment-industrial · Change of use
Inspector: Jones R
Postcode: CT3 2AH

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the breach of planning control alleged in the enforcement notice has occurred as a matter of fact (ground b)
Whether the matters alleged in the notice constitute a breach of planning control (ground c)

What decided it

The photographic evidence over multiple dates from March 2021 to December 2021 demonstrating storage of plant, machinery and materials, loading and unloading of vehicles with tools and equipment, and vehicular movements associated with a construction and maintenance business, which materially changed the character of the site from residential to mixed use.

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