Appeal 3269672
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Official decision document
The decision, section by section
3 sections
Read the development description and the Inspector’s text from the official decision PDF in source order. Source headings are retained where available. Personal and contact details are removed by an automated privacy filter; this is source material, not Rules for You analysis.
Section 01
Development description
“Without the benefit of planning permission, The unauthorised change of use from agricultural to storage and processing of timber, formation of access track and hardstanding and siting of containers”.
Section 02
Reasons for the decision
The appeal is made on the basis that more time is required for the appellants to find a suitable alternative location for the storage materials due to the COVID 19 restrictions. The appellants have also submitted a planning application for a similar development. They therefore request that the compliance period be extended to 6 months. However, I am mindful that some 5 months have elapsed since the appeal was submitted with enforcement action effectively suspended, and, in the meantime, COVID restrictions have been significantly lifted. As the compliance period will begin again from the date of this decision, the appellants will effectively have had some 6 months in which to comply with the first two required steps of the notice and some 7 months for the third. It is also reasonable to assume the revised planning application has been determined since the appeal was submitted.
In these circumstances, I do not consider there is good reason to extend the compliance period further and believe that the stated harm caused by the Appeal Decision: APP/Z4718/C/21/3269672 unauthorised development to the Green Belt should be brought to an end as soon as possible.
Section 03
Formal decision
For the reasons given above, the appeal is dismissed and the enforcement notice is upheld. [name]
Planning inspector and document dates
The official casework attribution is grouped under a one-way keyed hash and shown only by its local identifier. Decision-letter dates and page references are extracted by fixed first-page rules and checked against that authoritative record.
Appeal Decision
- Extracted decision date · page 1
- 14 July 2021Matches the official casework database
Reference and authority
Official identifiers and the planning authority recorded against this case.
- Case reference
- 3269672
- Application reference
- Not recorded
- Lead case reference
- Not recorded
- Planning authority
- Kirklees Metropolitan Council
- Planning authority code
- E08000034
Casework details
The casework, procedure, development and linking details supplied by the official record.
- Casework type
- Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development type
- Change of use
- Appeal type reason
- LPA's service of an Enforcement Notice
- Appeal reason
- Not recorded
- Type detail
- Unknown
- Jurisdiction
- Transferred
- Link status
- Not Linked
Site and development
Published appeal-site measurements and planning designations, without the withheld precise location fields.
- Site area
- Not recorded
- Floor space
- Not recorded
- Number of residences
- 0
- Site in Green Belt
- Yes
- Agricultural holding
- Not recorded
- Affects setting of a listed building
- Not recorded
- Historic building grant made
- Not recorded
- Relates to a conservation area
- Not recorded
- Flooding is an issue
- Not recorded
- Site within an AONB
- Not recorded
- Site within an SSSI
- Not recorded
Decision and dates
The published outcome and every imported case date.
- Official decision
- Notice upheld
- Decision category
- Dismissed
- Received date
- 24 February 2021
- Valid date
- 24 February 2021
- Start date
- 26 February 2021
- Planning authority decision date
- Not recorded
- Appeal decision date
- 14 July 2021
Case administration
Published recovery, call-in, costs and enforcement information for this case.
- Redetermined
- No
- Bespoke
- No
- Date recovered
- Not recorded
- Date not recovered or derecovered
- Not recorded
- Call-in date
- Not recorded
- Costs applied for
- Not recorded
- Enforcement grounds count
- 1
- Enforcement grounds
- g
Source and catalogue history
When this record appeared in the rolling official release and when the catalogue stored it.
- Source
- Planning Inspectorate casework database
- Source data system
- Horizon
- Dataset status
- Current release
- Catalogue record ID
- 696
- First seen
- 20 August 2026 at 14:24
- Last seen
- 20 August 2026 at 16:25
- Removed from release
- Not recorded
- Record created
- 20 August 2026 at 14:24
- Record updated
- 20 August 2026 at 16:25