4 Cow Pasture Road, ILKLEY, LS29 8SR

Without planning permission, the material change of use of the land to an area for customers to congregate including as a drinking and seating area (Sui Generis) in connection with the adjacent drinking establishment (at 4 Cowpasture Road) and associated operational development comprising the siting of timber boundary fencing, timber and plastic canopy and fixed seating

Authority: City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: leisure-sport · Change of use
Inspector: Robbie G

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the matters alleged in the enforcement notice constitute a breach of planning control
Whether the enforcement notice was properly served
Whether the steps required by the notice exceed what is necessary to remedy the breach

What decided it

The rear land and building formed a single planning unit, making the use of external areas incidental to the permitted drinking establishment use rather than a material change of use, but the operational development elements remained unauthorised.

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