The notice was issued to The Berwick Manor Hotel in Berwick Pond Road on October 3.
Detail of the action has been shared on the publicly accessible enforcement actions page on Havering Council’s website.
According to the notice, the alleged breach of planning control relates to “the erection of marquees at the rear and the side of the property”, without planning permission.
The supposed breach is understood to have taken place within the last four years, with the hotel now required to “remedy the breach” as well as “any injury to amenity” caused by it.
Berwick Manor Hotel is a Grade-II listed building with an interesting past, having previously been used as a country club and nightclub from 1967 to 1999.
In September 1999, a major fire broke out at the site which saw just two walls of the venue survive.
In December 2023, a part retrospective planning application was put to the council, seeking permission for the “erection of a marquee permanently”.
Havering Council refused the application in August this year.
Its planning committee has since raised a number of issues in the enforcement notice concerning the marquee.
They wrote: “The rear marquee, by reason of its scale and sitting, has an undue impact upon the amenities surrounding residential occupiers by reason of an unacceptable degree of noise and disturbance.”
A side structure with an associated canopy marquee has also been deemed to have “adversely affected the street scene”, harming the openness of the green belt and listed hotel.
Berwick Manor Hotel must now demolish and remove the rear marquee and side structure with canopy marquee, decking, fencing and roofing.
The hotel has not responded to our request for comment.
