An architect and musician who won more than £28,000 in a planning appeal against Richmond Council will re-submit a planning application.

Henry Harrison, the 63-year-old founder of the Mystery Jets, received £28,876 in compensation following a High Court challenge against the council’s refusal to entertain an application for the mooring of his houseboat at Phoenix Wharf.

Mr Harrison said: “Richmond Council overestimated its rights to prevent me from making a legitimate planning application to be able to establish rights to moor a houseboat in common with my neighbours and in doing so misspent around £30,000 of ratepayers’ money.”

Mr Harrison will make a new application to allow him to moor his houseboat Liquid Sky at Phoenix Wharf.

He lived on this houseboat at the site from 1999-2006, soon after he bought the site following the fire that destroyed the former Eel Pie Marine Boatyard.

Mr Harrison said: “The boat was moored on the site for more than seven years without complaint and previous to this the large houseboat ‘Lodestar’ was also moored in this position.”

Mr Harrison made an initial appeal to the council in 2010, which was rejected, following an enforcement notice requiring the removal of his self-designed and developed home at Phoenix Wharf.

He then applied for planning permission, but in April 2012 the council refused to consider his application because it was made two years after his initial appeal.

In the High Court, Deputy Judge Paines agreed that the council “did not ask and answer the right legal questions” when refusing to consider the application and, therefore, was at fault.

Richmond Council will have to consider any planning application put forward by Mr Harrison regarding his vessel. He has a pre-application meeting set-up next week.