Land adjacent to Peach Cottage, Ford, Kingsbridge, Devon, TQ7 2LN

Without planning permission, operational development namely engineering operations to create a vehicular access and the construction of a hardstanding including the creation of timber retaining walls, shown in the approximate position hatched red on the attached plan

Authority: South Hams District Council
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: other · Change of use
Inspector: Harwood A

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the alleged operational development (engineering operations to create a vehicular access and construction of hardstanding with timber retaining walls) constitutes a breach of planning control
Whether the steps required by the enforcement notice exceed what is necessary to remedy the breach

What decided it

The works undertaken constituted engineering operations requiring planning permission, which was not obtained, and therefore constitute a breach of planning control that the enforcement notice properly seeks to remedy.

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