®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
- Written Representations
- Development
- other · Change of use
- Inspector
- Madge M
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the enforcement notice was properly served on all owners and occupiers of the land
- Whether a material change of use to a mixed use (virtual reality escape room, café/bar, salon and storage business) has occurred
- Whether the creation of a canopy and decked terrace amounts to development requiring planning permission
What decided it
The appeal site comprised three separate planning units with unrelated uses (virtual reality gaming, retail sales, and beauty salon), not a single mixed use, therefore the alleged material change of use to a mixed use did not occur as a matter of fact.
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