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Decision Maker: Planning
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
The Committee
received a report requesting authorisation to take formal enforcement
action.
The report had
regard to an alleged unauthorised change of use of a
domestic residential dwelling house into a commercial short-term visitor
accommodation letting use at the premises.
The report sought authority to serve one change of use Enforcement Notice
directed at remedying the harm caused as a result of the breach occurring. The
recommendation looked to ensure compliance in the short term and onwards.
The Committee noted the amendment sheet.
The Committee:
Unanimously
resolved to accept the
officer recommendation:
i. Authorised an enforcement notice under S172 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) alleging that there had been a breach of planning control within the last ten years, namely without planning permission, the unauthorised change of use from C3 dwelling house to short term visitor accommodation lets (sui generis) at the premises, specifying the steps to comply and the period for compliance set out in paragraphs 9.2 to 9.4, for the reasons contained in paragraph 9.5.
ii. Authorised the Head of Planning Services (after consultation with the Head of Legal Services) to draft and issue the enforcement notice.
iii. Delegated authority to the Head of Planning Services (after consultation with the Head of Legal Services) to exercise the Council’s powers to take further action in the event of noncompliance with the enforcement notice.
Report author: John Shuttlewood
Publication date: 27/12/2017
Date of decision: 06/12/2017
Decided at meeting: 06/12/2017 - Planning
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