Gurvits v Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Subject Matter

PLANNING — Enforcement notice — Validity — Outbuilding built in three sections across rear gardens of three residential properties — Enforcement notice requiring cessation of use of outbuilding as office and permanent removal of kitchen facilities and toilets — Planning inspector on appeal amending notice to add further requirement permanently to remove internal doors and seal up existing openings linking three component buildings — Whether addition of further requirement unlawful — Whether interfering with lawful use of each component of outbuilding for purposes incidental to enjoyment of associated dwelling house — Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c 8), s 55(2)(a)(d)

[2024] EWHC 490 (Admin); [2024] PTSR 790; [2024] WLR(D) 119, KBD