Development Management & Enforcement

It was once a tool for tackling drug dealers and gangland bosses – now planning enforcement teams are using confiscation orders under proceeds of crime legislation. Huw Morris reports on how they are...

A planner explains how she would change the planning system in Northern Ireland

A zoo in Ware, Hertfordshire that did not seek planning consent until three months after it opened has been refused permission at appeal, after an inspector ruled that no special circumstances existed to...

An inspector has refused permission to retain an HMO that was created after a local Article 4 direction restricting HMO conversions, ruling that although there had been no wilful breach of planning laws, it...