11/00713/F - Borough Council of King's Lynn & West Norfolk

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DEVELOPMENT CONTROL BOARD AGENDA ITEM NO: 11
Parish: WALSOKEN
25 JULY 2011
Purpose of report: TO RECONFIRM THE DECISION TO TAKE DIRECT ACTION IN VIEW
OF RECENT CHANGES IN CIRCUMSTANCES
Location: Land at 81 Broad End Road, Walsoken, Norfolk
Site owner/occupier: Mr. R Wilson & Ms P Wenn
Grid Ref: 548805 : 309222 Dated: 09 June 2011
RECOMMENDATION – Authority is granted to the Executive Director of Development
Services, to implement and execute direct action to comply with part of the
enforcement notice, the removal of the unauthorised park home, thus remedying
the breach of planning control.
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 This report sets out the latest position on the long-standing breach of planning
control on this site. It is brought to the Board because of a change in
circumstances since authority was last granted for direct action. This change
in circumstances is the granting of planning permission on the site, at appeal,
for the stationing of a mobile home for occupation by a person of gypsy status
with additional tree planting and landscaping for a temporary period of two
years. That appeal decision (16 August 2010) was then followed up with a
further planning application which was approved at the DCB on 10 January
2011, for the siting of mobile home for persons of gypsy status with additional
tree planting, landscaping, access and gateway.
1.2 This report seeks to explain how the change in circumstances described
above impacts upon the enforcement notice served in 2006. Details of the
enforcement notice are set out later in this report, and a copy of the latest
appeal decision is appended to this report.
2.0 THE SITE
2.1 The site is located on the northern side of Broad End Road East, Walsoken,
approximately 270 Metres east of the junction with the A47 Wisbech by-pass
and 250 Metres west of Biggs Road. Broad End Road is an unclassified
Road, providing a thoroughfare from the A47 to the northern fringes of
Emneth village, Emneth Hungate and The Smeeth.
2.2 The site is a rectangular area of land comprising approximately 0.8 hectares
of Grade 2 agricultural land, located in open Countryside, beyond the
settlement boundaries for both Walsoken (north-west) and Emneth (southeast),
as defined on the proposals map in the King’s Lynn and West Norfolk