®Planning appeal decision
12 Seymour Street, Heywood, OL10 3AJ
Planning appeal 3357714 at 12 Seymour Street, Heywood, OL10 3AJ (Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council) was dismissed on 28 July 2025 by Inspector Hartley D, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the Council's decision to refuse to grant a certificate of lawful use or development was well-founded with particular regard to whether on the date of the LDC application the proposed outbuilding within the rear garden would have been lawful if instigated or begun on that date.
a proposed outbuilding within the rear garden
- Appeal type
- ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- other · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Hartley D
- Postcode
- OL10 3AJ
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the Council's decision to refuse to grant a certificate of lawful use or development was well-founded with particular regard to whether on the date of the LDC application the proposed outbuilding within the rear garden would have been lawful if instigated or begun on that date
What decided it
The proposed outbuilding would be sited on land designated for car parking purposes under Condition No. 03 of the 1997 planning permission, and the appellant failed to provide sufficient evidence that this condition had been breached for the requisite ten-year period to render it unenforceable.
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