®Planning appeal decision
LAND AT CALMLANDS ROAD, MELTHAM, HUDDERSFIELD, HD9 4JD
without the benefit of planning permission, the material change of use of the site to general storage, and engineering operations to raise the land level, the laying of crushed stone to form a hard surface, the siting of shipping containers and creation of a building to facilitate the use of general storage
- Authority
- Kirklees Metropolitan Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- employment-industrial · Change of use
- Inspector
- Thompson F
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the matters alleged in the enforcement notice have occurred as a matter of fact (ground b)
- Whether the matters alleged constitute a breach of planning control (ground c)
- Whether the period for compliance with the notice is reasonable (ground g)
What decided it
The storage use, together with the operational development, resulted in a definable and material change in the character of the site from its previous agricultural use, and the appellant failed to demonstrate that the storage was incidental to the lawful use of the planning unit.
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