Planning appeal decision
Millstream Court, Peveril Street, Nottingham, NG7 4AJ
Planning appeal 3336069 at Millstream Court, Peveril Street, Nottingham, NG7 4AJ (Nottingham City Council) was dismissed on 15 July 2025 by Inspector Boffin D, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether, on the balance of probability, the operational development that constitutes the alleged breach of planning control was substantially completed by 15 November 2019, such that the four-year time limit in section 171B(1) of the 1990 Act had expired before the enforcement notice was issued.
Without planning permission, removal of the original pitched roof and its replacement with a new flat roof structure, including raised/rendered gable walls and composite cladding in anthracite grey
- Authority
- Nottingham City Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- residential · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Boffin D
- Postcode
- NG7 4AJ
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether, on the balance of probability, the operational development that constitutes the alleged breach of planning control was substantially completed by 15 November 2019, such that the four-year time limit in section 171B(1) of the 1990 Act had expired before the enforcement notice was issued
What decided it
The appellant failed to demonstrate, on the balance of probabilities, that the operational development was substantially complete before 15 November 2019, given contradictory documentary and photographic evidence including the 2020 planning application and dated photographs.
What the Inspector cited
- Judgments
- Sage v SSETR & Maidstone BC [2003] UKHL 22; [2003] JPL 1299
How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.
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