Land at 1A High Street, Graveley, Hitchen, Hertfordshire, SG4 7LE

Without planning permission, the material change of use to a mixed use of the land for Metal Recycling, Open Commercial Storage and for the Sale and Display of Motor Vehicles and associated operational development

Authority: North Hertfordshire District Council
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Hearing
Development: employment-industrial · Change of use
Inspector: Douglas L

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the alleged breach of planning control has occurred as a matter of fact, in particular whether the site is or has been a single planning unit in a mixed use as alleged by the notice, or whether it comprises or comprised two or more planning units in different uses

What decided it

The evidence showed the site comprised at least three physically separate and functionally distinct planning units in different, unrelated uses, rather than the single mixed use alleged in the notice, so the alleged breach had not occurred as a matter of fact.

Judgments cited: Burdle & Williams v SSE & New Forest DC [1972] 1 WLR 1207

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