An unauthorised site used to store building material has been removed from Green Belt land in Chesham.
Buckinghamshire Council had to forcibly remove the 'enormous amount of building material' including bricks and tiles from Hyde End.
The council said Chiltern District Council refused planning permission for the site to store building materials in 2019. This refusal was subsequently upheld at appeal.
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The site located between Chesham and Great Missenden next to a builders’ yard also sits both in the Green Belt and Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
In June 2020, Buckinghamshire Council issued an enforcement notice against this use and required the cessation of the use and removal of items within six months.
Following correspondence with the site owners and operatives, a Buckinghamshire Council enforcement officer visited the site in July 2022 and found that the use had indeed ceased and that an enormous amount of building materials has been removed from the site.
Peter Strachan, Cabinet Member for Planning and Regeneration, said: “I’m pleased to see that our involvement and enforcement action in this case has had a dramatically positive effect on the site, and that the unauthorised use of this sensitive Green Belt and Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty site has now been brought to an end.
“We have a very successful track record of planning enforcement, which has led us to become the highest authority outside London for issuing Planning Enforcement Notices.”
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