Response 886926

Response to request for information

Reference

886926

Response date

26 May 2022

Request

The number of enforcement actions you have served over shipping containers not having proper planning permission. I would like this information broken down for the years (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022), the outcome of enforcement action and where the container was located (for example on green belt land, in a back garden of a dwelling, on a brownfield site).

Response

2019

• Description: 2 Containers - commercial office property
• Relevant Constraints or Land Designations: Greenbelt; setting of non-designated heritage asset
• Action Taken: No notices served, but Planning Enforcement Notice threatened if containers not removed
• Outcome: Containers removed on threat of formal action; case closed

2020

• Description: 4 containers, domestic driveway
• Relevant Constraints or Land Designations: not specified
• Action Taken: Planning application subsequently submitted for demolition of the dwelling and construction of 3 replacement dwellings. Containers then retained as site contractors storage under permitted development rights until construction was complete.
• Outcome: Subsequent application effectively made container permitted development, containers removed after redevelopment, case closed

2021

• Description: 1 Storage Container (and fence), domestic frontage (driveway/garden)
• Relevant Constraints or Land Designations: not specified
• Action Taken: PCN Served, Nov 2021, Applications pending to relocate container to a position where it would represent permitted development as a domestic outbuilding
• Outcome: ongoing

2021

• Description: 1 Storage Container - domestic frontage
• Relevant Constraints or Land Designations:
• Action Taken:
• Outcome:

2021

• Description: 1 Container, building materials, rubble
• Relevant Constraints or Land Designations: Social Housing (tenant)
• Action Taken: Resolved via Housing Association, container was being used to store mobility aid equipment - tenant rehoused to more suitable accommodation and container subsequently removed
• Outcome: Containers removed without formal action, case closed

2022

• Description: 1 Container; agricultural yard
• Relevant Constraints or Land Designations: Greenbelt
• Action Taken: Complaint received 5 May 2022, container confirmed and contact with owner suggests application will be submitted for retention
• Outcome: Ongoing