Anthony Solomon Bourne, 52, of Alveus, La Grande Lande, St Saviour’s, admitted failing to take the measures required by a planning compliance notice.
Advocate Jenny McVeigh, prosecuting, told the court that a planning official who visited Mr Bourne’s home in March 2021 saw the shed had been built between the dwelling and the road.
Letters were sent requesting that he seek retrospective planning permission.
In response to the second letter, the defendant sent an email asking why planning permission was necessary, to which the planners responded the next day.
Further site visits were made in May and June of last year and the shed was still there.
A compliance notice was served in August compelling the defendant to remove the shed before 13 November, but this was not done.
The defendant was written to in December to say he was likely to be prosecuted.
Advocate McVeigh said additional enquiries had established that Mr Bourne had paid money for a planning application to the States in June last year, but this had gone to the wrong account and there was no application to support it.
An application submitted in February had been incomplete so was invalidated and withdrawn.
Mr Bourne told the court that he thought his planning application was being processed.
When he made enquiries about the compliance notice he was told he would not have to do anything if a planning application was active.
He had also been pre-occupied with family matters and said he submitted another planning application three days before his court appearance.
Judge Gary Perry said the planning laws were there for good reason and the court had a duty to enforce them.
There was mitigation in this case that meant the penalty could be reduced substantially, though Mr Bourne might not realise that.
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