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Alex Metcalfe & Peter Diamond

Mum in £7,000 legal fight with council to use £20,000 garden cabin for creche

A creche owner has vowed to fight a planning dispute after her local council issued an enforcement action saying the £20,000 structure doesn't meet the requirements.

Currently, mum-of-one, Holly Fitzsimons uses the outbuilding to help host a child-minding business at the the rear of her garden.

However, the timber building, was refused a change of use application by Stockton Council in 2020 and its continued use has sparked enforcement action from the authority.

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