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Notice varied and upheld10 October 20253328925

Sunny Vale Cottage, Lines Farm Estate, Parrock Lane, Colemans Hatch, Hartfield, East Sussex, TN7 4HT

Planning appeal 3328925 at Sunny Vale Cottage, Lines Farm Estate, Parrock Lane, Colemans Hatch, Hartfield, East Sussex, TN7 4HT (Wealden District Council) was allowed in part (a split decision) on 10 October 2025 by Inspector Douglas L, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether, at the date the enforcement notice was issued, no enforcement action could be taken in respect of the log cabin under section 174(2)(d) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

Without planning permission, the erection of a log cabin for use as a dwelling and the associated creation of a residential curtilage

Authority
Wealden District Council
Appeal type
enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
residential · Householder developments
Inspector
Douglas L

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether, at the date the enforcement notice was issued, no enforcement action could be taken in respect of the log cabin under section 174(2)(d) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990
  • Whether the steps required by the enforcement notice exceed what is necessary to remedy the breach of planning control under section 174(2)(f) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990

What decided it

The appellant failed to provide sufficiently precise and unambiguous evidence on the balance of probabilities that the log cabin was substantially complete at least four years before the enforcement notice was issued, thereby failing to succeed under ground (d).

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