®Planning appeal decision
Plots 51, 52, 53 and 56 Bole Hill Road Allotment Gardens, South of Bole Hill Road, Sheffield, S6 5DF
(1) the material change of use of the Land to a mixed use for allotment, garden, a learning and skills educational centre (including upcycling and making goods/products) and a community facility for meetings and social events, and as a music venue, event hire and the provision of food and drink, and associated storage; and (2) the carrying out of operational development on the land in connection with and being part and parcel of the unauthorised uses described in paragraph (1) consisting of (i) the erection of buildings in the approximate positions marked [on an attached photograph] and (ii) the provision of a stage, gates, fencing, a mulch storage area, and engineering operation to change the land levels to form a car park and drive
- Authority
- Sheffield City Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- other · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- Renaudon L
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the alleged material change of use to a mixed use comprising learning and skills educational centre, community facility for meetings and social events, and music venue/event hire has occurred
- Whether the alleged operational development was carried out in connection with the alleged unauthorised uses
- Whether the music venue and event hire use benefits from permitted development rights under Class B of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015
- Whether the steps required by the enforcement notice exceed what is reasonably necessary to remedy the breach of planning control
What decided it
The Inspector's finding on ground (b) that the alleged material change of use to a mixed use had not occurred, as the learning and skills centre and community meeting facility were incidental to the lawful allotment use and the music events were discrete temporary occasions rather than permanent components of a mixed use.
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