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Planning permission granted2 December 20243327399

Road Haulage Depot, The Old Airfield, Town Lane, Wetheringsett, Suffolk, IP14 5NF

Planning appeal 3327399 at Road Haulage Depot, The Old Airfield, Town Lane, Wetheringsett, Suffolk, IP14 5NF (Mid Suffolk District Council) was allowed on 2 December 2024 by Inspector Perrins R, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the matters alleged in the enforcement notice constitute a breach of planning control (ground (c)).

without planning permission, the change of the use of the land for the purposes of the stationing of shipping containers

Authority
Mid Suffolk District Council
Appeal type
enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure
Hearing
Development
employment-industrial · Major general industry/storage/warehousing
Inspector
Perrins R
Postcode
IP14 5NF

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether the matters alleged in the enforcement notice constitute a breach of planning control (ground (c))
  • Whether the appellant has demonstrated that the breach of planning control was immune from enforcement action due to the passage of time (ground (d))

What decided it

The appellant's unchallenged sworn witness evidence and supporting photographic/documentary evidence established, on the balance of probability, that the container storage use had continued for ten years or more before the enforcement notice was issued.

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