®Planning appeal decision
All That Land Known As Police Station, 25 Chase Side, LONDON, N14 5BW
without planning permission, the unauthorised Change of use from a Police Station (Sui Generis) to a 65-room hostel (Sui Generis) including associated refuse/recycling and cycle parking provisions. (As shown edged in blue on the attached plan)
- Authority
- London Borough of Enfield
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Kean G
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Ground (b): whether the matters alleged in the notice (change of use to a hostel) have taken place as a matter of fact, or whether the use is instead an HMO
- Ground (f): whether the steps required by the notice are excessive and whether lesser steps would remedy the breach
- Ground (g): whether the period for compliance is reasonable
What decided it
The Inspector's finding that the actual use of the premises (whether termed hostel or HMO) was unauthorised residential use causing substandard living conditions, which the notice was entitled to require to cease subject only to amendment of description and a longer compliance period.
The adverse human/welfare impact on occupants of enforced eviction was weighed against the ongoing harm of allowing substandard residential accommodation to continue, with the balance tipping in favour of upholding the notice but extending the compliance period to 10 months rather than the 3 months originally set or the 12 months sought.
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.