Planning appeal decision
47 Catherine Road, Coseley, Bilston, West Midlands, WV14 9AD
Planning appeal 3346799 at 47 Catherine Road, Coseley, Bilston, West Midlands, WV14 9AD (Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 22 October 2025 by Inspector Ollerenshaw M, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the enforcement notice correctly specifies the alleged breach of planning control.
Without planning permission and within the last ten years the change of use of the garage (use incidental to class C3) to a storage and collection area for auction items (use class B8) as shown on the attached site photographs
- Authority
- Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- employment-industrial · Change of use
- Inspector
- Ollerenshaw M
- Postcode
- WV14 9AD
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the enforcement notice correctly specifies the alleged breach of planning control
What decided it
The enforcement notice failed to correctly specify the alleged breach of planning control due to the mixed use of the site and inaccurate identification of the land in the plan, and could not be corrected without causing injustice.
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