®Planning appeal decision
Blossom Tree Camping , Littlefell Lane, LANCASTER, LA2 0RF
without planning permission, the carrying out of Development associated with camping activities on the Land, including hard standings and tracks, electric hook up points, standalone solar panels, waste disposal facility, modified containers to form utility blocks, outbuildings/structures and alterations to land levels to create terracing. (the Development)
- Authority
- Lancaster City Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- caravan-gypsy · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- Savage M
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the matters alleged in the notice occurred as a matter of fact (ground (b))
- Whether the matters stated in the notice, if they occurred, constitute a breach of planning control (ground (c))
- Whether, at the date the notice was issued, enforcement action was time-barred (ground (d))
What decided it
The appellant failed to prove, on the balance of probabilities, that the disputed structures and works either had not occurred, did not constitute development requiring planning permission, or were immune from enforcement through the passage of time.
Judgments cited: Gabbitas v SSE & Newham LBC [1985] JPL 630
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