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Quashed On Legal Grounds18 February 20263366639

Silver Fox Cafe, Broadoak, Newnham, Gloucestershire, GL14 1JA

Planning appeal 3366639 at Silver Fox Cafe, Broadoak, Newnham, Gloucestershire, GL14 1JA (Forest of Dean District Council) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 18 February 2026 by Inspector Hanson S, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the enforcement notice properly identifies the planning unit and the actual use of the land.

Without planning permission the material change of use of the agricultural land as a camping and caravan site including the unauthorised erection of W.C building and laundry building. The storage of shipping containers, a double decker bus, barge, shepherds hut, motor home and touring caravan, extension to the café building and siting of 2 no. prefabricated brick structures on the Land

Authority
Forest of Dean District Council
Appeal type
enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
leisure-sport · Change of use
Inspector
Hanson S
Postcode
GL14 1JA

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether the enforcement notice properly identifies the planning unit and the actual use of the land
  • Whether the notice achieves the level of clarity and certainty required by section 173(2) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990

What decided it

The enforcement notice failed to achieve the level of clarity and certainty required by section 173(2) of the 1990 Act by misidentifying the planning unit and failing to logically distinguish between use-related breaches and operational development, and these defects could not be corrected without causing injustice.

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