Planning appeal decision
Rectory Barn, Church Lane, Off Fyfield Road, Ongar, Essex, CM5 0HQ
Planning appeal 3332372 at Rectory Barn, Church Lane, Off Fyfield Road, Ongar, Essex, CM5 0HQ (Epping Forest District Council) was allowed on 10 June 2024 by Inspector Bowden N, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether condition 1 meets the tests set out in the National Planning Policy Framework and Planning Practice Guidance, specifically whether it meets the tests of being necessary, relevant to planning, relevant to the development to be permitted, enforceable, precise and reasonable in all other respects.
Reduce size of house, including removal of first floor and lower height of roof
- Authority
- Epping Forest District Council
- Appeal type
- householder · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Bowden N
- Postcode
- CM5 0HQ
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether condition 1 meets the tests set out in the National Planning Policy Framework and Planning Practice Guidance, specifically whether it meets the tests of being necessary, relevant to planning, relevant to the development to be permitted, enforceable, precise and reasonable in all other respects
What decided it
Condition 1 failed the tests of necessity, reasonableness and enforceability set out in the PPG because it required completion of works in their entirety within an unreasonably short timeframe.
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