®Planning appeal decision
Notice upheld16 October 20253347940
The Studio, Manor Farm Church Lane, Graveley, HITCHIN, SG4 7BN
Without planning permission, the erection of box dormer to North roof slope and the material change of use of the first floor of the building to self-contained studio flat, in the approximate position outlined in PINK and hatched on the attached plan
- Authority
- North Hertfordshire District Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Symons G
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the box dormer is immune from enforcement action by virtue of s171B(1) of the 1990 Act as operational development substantially completed for at least four years prior to the enforcement notice
- Whether the requirements of the enforcement notice exceed what is necessary to remedy the breach of planning control
What decided it
The Council's aerial photographic evidence demonstrating the box dormer was not substantially completed four years before the enforcement notice was issued, combined with the appellant's failure to provide any evidence to support the claim.
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