Planning appeal decision
8 Wood Lane, Slough, SL1 9EA
Planning appeal 3352631 at 8 Wood Lane, Slough, SL1 9EA (Slough Borough Council) was dismissed on 8 July 2025 by Inspector Buchanan R, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the matters stated in the enforcement notice have occurred as a matter of fact (ground b).
‘Without planning permission, the unauthorised construction of a rear canopy extension and the unauthorised wooden and plastic enclosure to the side of the outbuilding’
- Authority
- Slough Borough Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- other · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Buchanan R
- Postcode
- SL1 9EA
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the matters stated in the enforcement notice have occurred as a matter of fact (ground b)
- Whether the matters stated in the enforcement notice constitute a breach of planning control (ground c)
- Whether when the notice was issued it was too late to take enforcement action (ground d)
What decided it
The appellant's evidence that the structures were substantially completed before the four-year limitation period expired was insufficiently precise and contradicted by professional plans submitted to the Council in June 2020 that did not depict either structure.
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