Breworth Fold Farm Marsh Lane, Brindle, Chorley, PR6 8NZ

Planning appeal 3334083 at Breworth Fold Farm Marsh Lane, Brindle, Chorley, PR6 8NZ (Chorley Borough Council) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 21 May 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, having regard to the planning unit and the entirety of uses taking place on the holding.

i) Unauthorised material change of use of an agricultural building (“the Building”) to a mixed-use building comprising agriculture, storage and distribution purposes in connection with a tree surgery and woodland management company. ii) Unauthorised material change of use of the Building to a mixed-use building comprising agriculture and general industrial purposes in connection with the processing of wood in connection with a tree surgery and woodland management company

Authority: Chorley Borough Council
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: employment-industrial · Change of use
Inspector: Hitchcock R
Postcode: PR6 8NZ

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the enforcement notice specifies with sufficient clarity the alleged breach of planning control, having regard to the planning unit and the entirety of uses taking place on the holding

What decided it

The enforcement notice does not specify with sufficient clarity the alleged breach of planning control as it fails to reference all uses taking place on the identified planning unit, and correction would cause injustice to the parties.

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