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Allowed24 March 20263340364

Happy Days, Bell Farm Lane, Minster on Sea, Kent , ME12 4JB

Planning appeal 3340364 at Happy Days, Bell Farm Lane, Minster on Sea, Kent , ME12 4JB (Swale Borough Council) was allowed on 24 March 2026 by Inspector Ghafoor A, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the decision to refuse the certificate of lawful use or development was well founded.

Erection of a single dwellinghouse

Authority
Swale Borough Council
Appeal type
ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
residential · Householder developments
Inspector
Ghafoor A
Postcode
ME12 4JB

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether the decision to refuse the certificate of lawful use or development was well founded

What decided it

The building operations involved in the erection of the dwellinghouse were substantially completed on or before 4 April 2018, placing them beyond the four-year enforcement period for building operations and thus immune from enforcement action.

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