Planning appeal decision
1 Park Road, Gisburn, Clitheroe, BB7 4HT
Planning appeal 3330498 at 1 Park Road, Gisburn, Clitheroe, BB7 4HT (Ribble Valley Borough Council) was allowed in part (a split decision) on 26 June 2025 by Inspector Hartley D, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the steps required by the enforcement notice to remove the garden room/home office and garden shed exceed what is necessary to remedy the breach of planning control or injury to amenity.
without planning permission the unauthorised erection of a garden room/home office and garden shed
- Authority
- Ribble Valley Borough Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- other · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Hartley D
- Postcode
- BB7 4HT
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the steps required by the enforcement notice to remove the garden room/home office and garden shed exceed what is necessary to remedy the breach of planning control or injury to amenity
What decided it
The planning merits of the appellant's suggested alterations to the buildings had already been considered by another Inspector who concluded that planning harm would still be caused and would not be outweighed by other material planning considerations.
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