®Planning appeal decision
Seven Acre Farm, Crows Lane, Woodham Ferrers, Chelmsford, Essex, CM3 8RS
Without planning permission, the making of a material change in the use of land to the storage of caravans, motorhomes, and other vehicles, along with the carrying out of facilitative operational development comprising the formation of hard surfaces, the construction of a building, and the formation of an earth bund
- Authority
- Chelmsford Borough Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- other · Change of use
- Inspector
- Symons G
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the steps required by the enforcement notice exceed what is necessary to remedy the breach of planning control or injury to amenity (ground f)
- Whether the period for compliance with the notice is reasonable (ground g)
What decided it
The requirements of the enforcement notice do no more than seek to remedy the breach of planning control by discontinuing the unauthorised use and restoring the land, and the six-month compliance period is reasonable given the appellant's demonstrated ability to wind down operations gradually.
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