Whiteborough Farm Chesterfield Road, Huthwaite, SUTTON-IN-ASHFIELD, NG17 2QJ

Without planning permission, the unauthorised development and engineering works to install containers, black fabricated metal sections, hardstanding and field access track

Authority: Ashfield District Council
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: other · Minor general industry/storage/warehousing
Inspector: Pleasant L

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the access track construction constitutes operational development and a breach of planning control
Whether the access track is immune from enforcement action on the basis of the four-year limitation period
Whether the steps required by the enforcement notice are excessive
Whether the compliance period of one month is reasonable

What decided it

The access track was substantially completed by April 2019, prior to the four-year limitation period, making it immune from enforcement action under section 171A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

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