A woman who said she 'wasnt' going down without a fight' has won a long-running planning battle to use a £20,000 backyard cabin as a creche. Holly Fitzsimons, 27, had been embroiled council enforcement action against a timber outbuilding used for her Little Oaks childminding business.
But the mum-of-one from Ingleby Barwick, Stockton-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, has won her fight after an appeal to the planning inspectorate overturned the notice and secured planning permission for the wooden outhouse. A retrospective bid to change the use of the cabin was refused by Stockton Council in 2020, TeesideLive reports.
The authority launched enforcement action to stop the Malham Grove building’s being used to host youngsters in the aftermath. Ms Fitzsimons spent thousands of pounds on overturning the decision - arguing she’d received mixed messages on permission needed for the cabin.
