71 Sandwich Road, Ash, Kent, CT3 2AH

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

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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What an account adds

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Heritage. Listed buildings by grade and distance, conservation areas, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, heritage at risk.
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Flooding. Flood zones 2 and 3, surface water, and both again with climate change.
Transport. The 800 metre station catchment and service frequency, bus stops with their weekday frequency, the cycle network, and the Framework’s transport tests measured for the site.

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