Land at Plot 1, West of Water Lane, Water Lane, Harrietsham, Kent, ME17 1DH

without planning permission, the material change of use of land to a mixed use of keeping of horses and residential for Gypsies and Travellers including the stationing of caravans and associated operational works including the laying of hardsurfacing, installation of a septic tank and the erection of three stable buildings

Authority: Maidstone Borough Council
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Hearing
Development: caravan-gypsy · Minor traveller and caravan pitches
Inspector: Orr H

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the enforcement notice specifies, with sufficient clarity, the land where the breach of planning control is alleged to have taken place

What decided it

The enforcement notice's plan was incorrectly plotted so that it failed to identify the land to which the alleged breach related with sufficient clarity, and correcting this would cause injustice to a third-party landowner not served with the notice.

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