Planning appeal decision
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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