®Planning appeal decision
36-38 Victoria Road, ROMFORD, RM1 2JH
described as “Implementation of approved planning permission ref:P1928.17 before the expiry of 3 years, hence the planning permission is now alive/extant by doing piled foundation works, as per e-mail evidence from piling contractor, pile logs and piled foundation invoices attached, showing works were completed on or before 1 December 2020
- Authority
- London Borough of Havering
- Appeal type
- ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- employment-industrial · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Fleming D
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the Council's decision to refuse to grant a certificate of lawful use or development was well-founded, turning on whether the appellant can show on the balance of probabilities that there was a material operation sufficient to implement a grant of planning permission before it expired
What decided it
The dated photographs, emails from the piling contractor, and invoice provided sufficient precise and unambiguous evidence that piled foundation works constituting a material start were completed on or before 1 December 2020, before the planning permission expired on 17 January 2021.
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