Planning Law

The proposed environment bill has much to recommend it, says Kimberley Ziya, but there are fears about enforcement and the funding of local nature recovery strategies...

An enforcement notice citing the unauthorised siting of a takeaway container unit has been quashed for failing to specify clearly the alleged breach of planning control.

An inspector has sided with a Dorset members' club which had argued that the local authority’s reference to it as a ‘naturist facility’ in the wording of a lawful development certificate did not reflect its...