Hi All, I hope there may be someone here who can advise me of the next course of action I should take. Briefly, I have applied to my local London council for a Certificate of Lawfulness to cover works to an integrated garage that I am looking to commence soon. My intention was to cut the garage in half retaining storage in one and a cloakroom and utility room in the other. I based my application on a neighbour's similar application that had been approved in 2015. The council refused to issue a certificate because it is in contravention of the original planning permission's restrictions from November 1989. I quote "The parking spaces provided shall be used only for that purpose and no development whether permitted by the Town and Country Planning General Development Orders or not shall be carried out so as to interfere with such use" I spoke to the planning officer and it seems that despite giving approval to my neighbour (It should not have been allowed through??) they had to refuse my application. The officer said that if I submit full planning application he will push this through and of course this is what I will now do. But if this is a restriction set out by the council and enforced by the council how will submitting a planning application over turn the restriction? This he could not answer, so I am naturally wondering if this will fail too...