Town Planning & Urban Design Ltd.

Acting for the client who was trying to sell on her business as a going concern, I first sought to have the council confirm use of the ground floor as a Class A5 hot food takeaway, with separate flat above.

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The council were unwilling to do this despite overwhelming evidence from the site’s planning history, so a Certificate of Lawfulness was applied for, using site survey information I prepared.

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Necessary evidence was presented to verify these uses of the property for the respective 10 and 4 year periods.

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The Certificate was granted and the council later opined that this had also probably been the appointed day (1.7.1948) use of the property