Planning appeal decision
R/O 14 to 38 Shaftesbury Road, Cheetham Hill, Manchester, M8 0NL
Planning appeal 3339366 at R/O 14 to 38 Shaftesbury Road, Cheetham Hill, Manchester, M8 0NL (Manchester City Council) was decided (invalid) on 14 March 2025 by Inspector Tweddle J, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the appellant had sufficient legal standing to appeal the enforcement notice as a person having an interest in the land or as a relevant occupier under section 174(1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.
Without planning permission, the material change of use of the land as an extension to residential curtilage, together with:
- Authority
- Manchester City Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Tweddle J
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the appellant had sufficient legal standing to appeal the enforcement notice as a person having an interest in the land or as a relevant occupier under section 174(1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990
What decided it
The appellant's possessory title was only registered on 4 March 2024, after the appeal was made on 23 February 2024, and there was no evidence of a legal or equitable interest in the land at the time the appeal was submitted.
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