LAND AT HALL MOSS FARM, BOLTON ROAD, DARWEN, LANCASHIRE, BB3 2DT

without planning permission, unauthorised engineering operations comprising of land level alterations, the importation and deposition of waste materials used to create hard standings and the change of use of the land to a residential use by virtue of the siting of caravans on the land used for residential purposes

Authority: Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: caravan-gypsy · Other minor developments
Inspector: Hartley D

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the period specified in the enforcement notice for compliance falls short of what should reasonably be allowed under section 174(2)(g) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990

What decided it

The undetermined retrospective planning application and the need to afford a reasonable and proportionate period for the family to know the outcome before being required to seek alternative accommodation elsewhere.

Plan policies cited: Policy DM04, Paragraph 3.48 of Blackburn with Darwen Local Plan 2021-2037

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