26 Sawyers Crescent, MAIDENHEAD, SL6 3ND

without planning permission, the erection of a boundary treatment, consisting of one electric metal vehicle entrance gate, one metal pedestrian gate, brick pillars and timber fencing with integral concrete posts

Authority: Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: other · Householder developments
Inspector: Robbie G

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the means of enclosure constitutes a breach of planning control (ground c)
Whether the steps required by the notice exceed what is necessary to remedy the breach (ground f)
Whether the compliance period is reasonable (ground g)

What decided it

The means of enclosure exceeds 1 metre in height adjacent to a highway used by vehicular traffic and therefore falls outside the permitted development provisions of the GPDO, constituting a breach of planning control that must be remedied by complete removal.

Judgments cited: Tapecrown Ltd v FSS & the Vale of the White Horse DC [2006] EWCA Civ 1744; Garland v MHLG [1968] 20 P&CR 93

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