®Planning appeal decision
Heron Farm, Long Drove, Waterbeach, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB25 9LR
the permanent material change of use from a mixed residential and agricultural use to a mixed residential and motorcycle track use at Heron Farm. Long Drove, Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire the alleged breach also relates to unauthorised engineering operations undertaken within 10 years of the date of this notice to facilitate the unauthorised use. These operations include the construction of an extensive formal track including several jumps and banked turns formed from compacted earth
- Authority
- South Cambridgeshire District Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- leisure-sport · Not Applicable
- Inspector
- Willows P
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The main issue is whether, at the time the enforcement notice was issued, it was too late to take enforcement action
What decided it
The appellants failed to provide sufficiently precise and unambiguous evidence—particularly given aerial photographs showing the current track did not exist in April 2022—that either the operational development or the use had continued for long enough to gain immunity from enforcement action.
Judgments cited: Thurrock BC v SSETR & Holding [2002] EWCA Civ 226
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