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Quashed On Legal Grounds26 March 20253355161

The Laurels Inn, Petrockstow, Okehampton, EX20 3HJ

Planning appeal 3355161 at The Laurels Inn, Petrockstow, Okehampton, EX20 3HJ (Torridge District Council) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 26 March 2025 by Inspector Bale M, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the enforcement notice specifies with sufficient clarity what the breach of planning control is and what must be done to remedy it.

Without planning permission and within the last four years, operational development consisting of the change of use of building from a mixed use of a public house and private dwelling to a private dwelling

Authority
Torridge District Council
Appeal type
enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
other · Change of use
Inspector
Bale M
Postcode
EX20 3HJ

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether the enforcement notice specifies with sufficient clarity what the breach of planning control is and what must be done to remedy it

What decided it

The enforcement notice does not specify with sufficient clarity what the breach of planning control is and what must be done to remedy it, and the defects cannot be corrected without causing injustice to the appellants.

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