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Quashed On Legal Grounds14 May 20263332551

The Old Mushroom Farm, Harthay Farm, Thrapston Road, Ellington, Cambridgeshire, PE28 4NJ

Planning appeal 3332551 at The Old Mushroom Farm, Harthay Farm, Thrapston Road, Ellington, Cambridgeshire, PE28 4NJ (Cambridgeshire County Council *) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 14 May 2026 by Inspector Savage M, 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.

unauthorised material change of use from agriculture to a use for the importation, storage, processing and export of inert waste materials and the deposit of waste in an engineering operation to raise the land, without the necessary planning permission

Authority
Cambridgeshire County Council *
Appeal type
enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
minerals-waste · Change of use
Inspector
Savage M
Postcode
PE28 4NJ

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether the enforcement notice specifies with sufficient clarity the alleged breach of planning control

What decided it

The enforcement notice lacked sufficient clarity as to the alleged breach of planning control, particularly regarding which areas of the site had been raised and to what extent, making it impossible for the appellant to know exactly what they had done wrong and what remedial steps were required.

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