®Planning appeal decision
6 Shires Close, Sprotbrough, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN5 7LP
Planning appeal 3362756 at 6 Shires Close, Sprotbrough, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN5 7LP (Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council) was dismissed on 10 November 2025 by Inspector Berry A, 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 for the installation of an existing air source heat pump was well-founded.
Installation of air source heat pump
- Appeal type
- ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- utilities-energy · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- Berry A
- Postcode
- DN5 7RG
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the Council's decision to refuse to grant a certificate of lawful use or development for the installation of an existing air source heat pump was well-founded
What decided it
The air source heat pump failed to satisfy section 191(2)(b) of the 1990 Act because it constituted a contravention of an enforcement notice that remained in force at the date of the certificate application.
The decision letter
Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.
With an account
What an account adds to this decision
More decisions in Doncaster
The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2025
- Notice upheld30 March 202633496677 Pony Paddocks, Hall Villa Lane, Tollbar, Yorkshire, DN5 0LB
- Notice varied and upheld1 July 20253357892Former Whitehall Motors, Askern Road, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN5 0QT
- Notice upheld1 July 20253357887Former Whitehall Motors, Askern Road, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN5 0QT
- Notice upheld1 July 20253357884Former Whitehall Motors, Askern Road, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN5 0QT
- Notice upheld1 July 20253354005Land Adj Mawson Green Cottage , Mawson Green Lane, Goole, DN14 9AJ
The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.