A LANDOWNER has put in for planning permission days before district councillors were set to give the green light to enforcement action against him.

Wychavon planning officers say the land at Rectory Farm in Upton Warren, off the A38, near Wychbold has been developed without planning permission.

In recent months an old farm track running from the A38 to farm buildings at the rear of the site, near the M5, was reinstated, a soil bund built and an area of hard-standing created.

Road planings and materials are now being stored on the hard-standing.

The land-owner had put in a request for planning permission but council officers said it was incomplete.

The land has also been used for the popular Bromsgrove Horse Hair, which started earlier this year, and a series of car boot sales.

However, the future dates of these events will take the land-owner over the 14 such events he is allowed to hold under planning law.

Enforcement action on all the issues was being decided at a meeting of Wychavon planners last week.

But council officer Jane Phelps said: “We have now had a valid updated planning application.”

Councillors unanimously agreed to endorse enforcement action, if the land-owner runs over the 14-event limit or does not remove the stored road materials.