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Quashed On Legal Grounds12 September 20253330682

42 Railway Street, Hindley, Wigan, WN2 2QL

Planning appeal 3330682 at 42 Railway Street, Hindley, Wigan, WN2 2QL (Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 12 September 2025 by Inspector Hitchcock R, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the enforcement notice specifies with sufficient clarity the alleged breach of planning control and identifies with sufficient precision where it is alleged to have occurred.

’Without planning permission the material change of use of part of the Land which was previously used as an alleyway to the rear of residential properties to use for storage, Use Class B8 of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 (as amended) by way of the siting of a container used to store motorcycles and associated paraphernalia, on part of the Land.’

Authority
Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council
Appeal type
enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
other · Change of use
Inspector
Hitchcock R
Postcode
WN2 2QL

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether the enforcement notice specifies with sufficient clarity the alleged breach of planning control and identifies with sufficient precision where it is alleged to have occurred

What decided it

The enforcement notice does not specify with sufficient clarity the alleged breach of planning control or identify with sufficient precision where it is alleged to have occurred, and the defect cannot be corrected without causing injustice.

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