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Notice varied and upheld11 December 20253354253

St. Michaels Manse Parkgate Drive, Lancaster, LA1 3FN

Planning appeal 3354253 at St. Michaels Manse Parkgate Drive, Lancaster, LA1 3FN (Lancaster City Council) was allowed in part (a split decision) on 11 December 2025 by Inspector Jones D, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether at the time the enforcement notice was issued it was too late to take enforcement action under section 174(2)(d) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

without planning permission, the erection of three outbuildings with a connecting fence structure, forward of the front elevation of St Michael's Manse, and within the curtilage of a Listed Building

Authority
Lancaster City Council
Appeal type
enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
other · Other minor developments
Inspector
Jones D
Postcode
LA1 3FN

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether at the time the enforcement notice was issued it was too late to take enforcement action under section 174(2)(d) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990

What decided it

The appellants failed to provide sufficiently precise and unambiguous evidence that the development was substantially completed before 23 September 2020, as the photographic evidence showed only an open-sided structure in 2019 which was materially different from the enclosed buildings present when the notice was issued.

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