Ambleside Tap Yard, Rydal Road, AMBLESIDE, LA22 9AN

without planning permission, operational development has occurred specifically building operations consisting of the installation of plant and equipment as shown on the photographs appended with this notice

Authority: Lake District
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: other · Major general industry/storage/warehousing
Inspector: Hartley D

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the building operations constitute development within the meaning of section 55 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990
Whether at the date the enforcement notice was issued, enforcement action could be taken in respect of the breach of planning control on ground (d)

What decided it

The appellants failed to demonstrate with sufficient precision and objective evidence that unit 1 was substantially complete before the four-year immunity period expired, and photographic evidence indicated installation occurred between October 2021 and May 2023, after which the enforcement notice was validly issued.

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