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Quashed On Legal Grounds22 April 20253324676

97 Melfort Road, Thornton Heath, CR7 7RT

Planning appeal 3324676 at 97 Melfort Road, Thornton Heath, CR7 7RT (London Borough of Croydon) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 22 April 2025 by Inspector King T, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the enforcement notice is valid and sufficiently clear in specifying the alleged breach, the required remedial steps, and the compliance period.

Without planning permission, conversion of dwelling as HMO (sui generis) for 10 occupants and an unauthorised construction of an outbuilding

Authority
London Borough of Croydon
Appeal type
enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
residential · Change of use
Inspector
King T
Postcode
CR7 7RT

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether the enforcement notice is valid and sufficiently clear in specifying the alleged breach, the required remedial steps, and the compliance period

What decided it

The enforcement notice contained multiple material errors and ambiguities that, taken together, rendered it so uncertain and imprecise that it could not be corrected without causing injustice, and therefore it was invalid and had to be quashed.

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