London Borough of Brent Council refused this retrospective application 21st December after originally validating it on 21st May. There reasons were stated as; The outbuilding by virtue of its scale and positioning has a dominant and overly prominent appearance resulting in a detrimental impact on the character and appearance of the host property and the open space of the rear garden. It thus does not accord with Core Strategy CP17 and Local Plan Policy DMP1. The outbuilding is located 5 metres from this property’s ground floor habitable windows. Given the site has a low boundary wall height of 1.6m the development has already contributed to a degree of overlooking and loss of privacy to the occupants at no 18 Ambleside Road. In this regard, the development has failed to comply with DMP1. The Appeal Statement for this case that is shown in the video, and was produced specifically to overcome…
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This case started for us when we were contacted by our client after their recent retrospective application had been refused by Cornwall Council and a decision notice had been issued to our client refusing the application. The client felt the decision was unjustified and that many parts of the enforcement notice were false with incorrect information being stated by Cornwall Council. The client stated that should they loose this enforcement appeal then they would be homeless. The building was already in place and used previously as a storage shed and had been in need of repair and renovation which our client had completed. Are client was not prepared to simply give in to the enforcement notice especially as they felt that it was incorrect in many parts., and wanted the merits of his case taking to the Planning inspectorate. The enforcement notice was served on 19th July 2021 and our…
This case started for us when we were contacted by our client because they had received an enforcement notice issued by East Herts council following a series of applications and appeals that had failed, the client wanted to ensure that there were no more options prior to taking down the building as being advised by their planning agent and in compliance with the enforcement notice. This case had quite a large amount of history. Starting with a previous application for an outbuilding that during that permission the local authority had removed the clients permitted development rights from the entire site, which would have allowed them to build this building without the need for a permission. The site is also located within the Green belt which means additional policies are in place to restrict development. The building was predominately used to store equipment for maintaining the surrounding woods and drying logs.…