Petersfield Farm Petersfield Lane, Gosfield, HALSTEAD, CO9 1PU

without planning permission: The unauthorised development consisting of the siting of a shipping container modified to link into an existing building and used in connection with a new heating boiler facility that serves the existing commercial uses on the site. (As shown in the approximate area marked in yellow on the attached plan1)

Authority: Braintree District Council
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: other · Change of use
Inspector: Bale M

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the matters alleged in the enforcement notice have occurred (ground b)
Whether the matters alleged, if they occurred, constitute a breach of planning control (ground c)

What decided it

The container, having been physically fixed to the adjoining building and boiler by ducting and linked to a permanent heating system serving permanent buildings, constitutes operational development requiring planning permission and cannot be considered temporary or movable.

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