11 Northfield Road, London, N16 5RL

Planning appeal 3344092 at 11 Northfield Road, London, N16 5RL (London Borough of Hackney) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 15 November 2024 by Inspector Moss J, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether or not a previous enforcement notice prevents my consideration of the ground (d) appeal and, therefore, any success for the appellant on ground (d).

Without planning permission the material change of use of the first floor and attic floor of the Property to a place of public worship or religious instruction (use class F1 (f))

Authority: London Borough of Hackney
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Inquiry
Development: community-institutional · Change of use
Inspector: Moss J
Postcode: N16 5RL

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether or not a previous enforcement notice prevents my consideration of the ground (d) appeal and, therefore, any success for the appellant on ground (d)
If not, whether the use of the first floor of the Property as a place of public worship and religious instruction has been continuous for a period of ten years beginning with the date of the breach

What decided it

The appellant established, on the balance of probability, that the use of the first floor as a place of public worship and religious instruction had been continuous since 2012, more than ten years before the notice was issued, rendering the use immune from enforcement.

What the Inspector cited

Judgments: Burdle & Williams v SSE & New Forest DC [1972] 1 WLR 1207; Buckinghamshire County Council v North West Estates PLC (and Others) [2002] EWHC 1088; Jennings v Secretary of State for the Environment [1982] 1 QB 541

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