Planning appeal decision
Brooks Farm Grange Road, Tillingham, Southminster, CM0 7UR
Planning appeal 3313810 at Brooks Farm Grange Road, Tillingham, Southminster, CM0 7UR (Maldon District Council) was dismissed on 8 July 2024 by Inspector Brownless E, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the Council's deemed refusal to grant a certificate of lawful use or development would have been well founded.
Construction of single storey building, formation of access and hardstanding area and associated works, and use of the building, private access and hardstanding area and land around it as a single dwellinghouse and its residential curtilage
- Authority
- Maldon District Council
- Appeal type
- ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Brownless E
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the Council's deemed refusal to grant a certificate of lawful use or development would have been well founded
What decided it
The appellant failed to prove on the balance of probabilities that the building operations were substantially completed by 26 September 2018, as evidenced by invoices for materials and facilities dated after that date and photographic evidence of an unfinished interior.
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