Planning appeal decision
17 White Hart Fold, Ripponden, Sowerby Bridge, HX6 4JS
Planning appeal 3316523 at 17 White Hart Fold, Ripponden, Sowerby Bridge, HX6 4JS (Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council) was allowed in part (a split decision) on 14 September 2023 by Inspector Watson S, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the steps required by the enforcement notice exceed what is necessary to remedy the breach of planning control or injury to amenity.
Without planning permission, the erection of a timber fence over the height of 1 metre on the west and south boundary of the land adjacent to the estate access road which is a highway used by vehicular traffic (as seen in the digital photographs attached to this notice at Appendix 1)
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- other · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- Watson S
- Postcode
- HX6 4JS
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the steps required by the enforcement notice exceed what is necessary to remedy the breach of planning control or injury to amenity
What decided it
The fallback position that permitted development rights would allow a 1m fence to be erected following removal, making complete removal unnecessarily punitive rather than remedial.
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