®Planning appeal decision
89 Oak Street, NORWICH, NR3 3BP
a) Without planning permission, the change of use of the land from sui generis employment use to mixed use: virtual reality escape room, café/bar, salon and storage business (sui generis). b) Without planning permission, the creation of a canopy and decked terrace to the western end of the building (see Appendix 1)
- Authority
- Norwich City Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- other · Change of use
- Inspector
- Madge M
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Ground (e): whether the notice was validly served under s172 of the 1990 Act
- Ground (b): whether the matter alleged in the notice has occurred
- Ground (c): whether the matters alleged constitute a breach of planning control requiring planning permission
- Ground (f): whether the requirements of the notice exceed what is necessary to remedy the breach
What decided it
The finding that the appeal site comprised three separate and functionally unrelated planning units meant the alleged material change of use to a single mixed use had not occurred, while the canopy and decked terrace were found not to be permitted development, determining the outcome on each ground.
Judgments cited: Burdle v SSE [1972] 1 WLR 1207 (Div Court)
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