ENFORCEMENT action must be taken swiftly to stop an unauthorised “settlement” in Storrs Common at Ingleton becoming even larger, the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority’s planning committee has been told.

Members were being asked to approved an enforcement notice with a compliance period of two months for the removal of a caravan/cabin in the disused quarry adjacent to the B6255.

The site is in a very visible location and is close to a well-used route leading to the summit of Ingleborough, the meeting heard.

District councillors Carl Lis and David Ireton both questioned giving the owner two months to move the cabin, which he used as his permanent home.

Cllr Lis said: “We need to stop it as soon as we possibly can.

"The ‘settlement’ – if you may call it that – is getting bigger and bigger. There is evidence of further buildings going up.”

Supporting a reduced one-month compliance period, Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority chairman Peter Charlesworth pointed out the occupant had been given 28 days to remove the caravan on June 4 and had been advised Craven District Council’s housing services could assist with finding him somewhere to live.

A 21-day deadline had been agreed with the occupant in July for the removal of the cabin which had, by then, been separated from the truck. And in August, a letter was delivered in person to the occupant offering seven days for the removal of the cabin and associated equipment.

The committee unanimously agreed the enforcement notice should be complied with within one month.

l Report by ARC News

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