Not really – they can’t enforce conditions on an unplanned building.

South Tyneside Council say they cannot enforce any conditions of the original grant of planning permission because the shed/shelter/cover is built without planning permission. In brief:

That the doors must be closed when they are working on vessels in the shed and they must give advance notice if they want to work outside the conditioned hours.  (a picture here, of the Shields Ferry with its rear end poking some 3m out of the back end of the shed would be nice).

The Council (South Tyneside) allowed the shed to be built because they said that there was not sufficient material deviation from the approved plan to warrant the building work to be stopped. It had been pointed out to the Council by protesters from day 4 of the construction that the shed appeared to be too high. It took a further 5 months prove the validity of the protesters case but the Head of Development Services overrode this, still maintaining that there was insufficient difference from the approved plans to stop the work and still saying this when the shed was signed off in June 2014, 9 months after the frames first went up. Quote (from stage II complaint 253539, 2nd June 2014):
“I have investigated this and referred to the approved drawing cross-referenced with the dimensions taken on site by my planning staff. The height of the shelter does not significantly deviate from the approved scheme as you have suggested.”