enforcement

Brent into shape: An interview with Alice Lester

07.05.2019

Huw Morris

Alice Lester is newly promoted to director of regeneration, growth and employment for Brent, a London borough undergoing major renewal. She tells Huw Morris about planning in an age of austerity, why...

Enforcement: Full costs awarded against appellant for ‘deliberate untruths’

03.05.2019

Matt Moody

Development Management & Enforcement | enforcement | London | temporary use

An inspector has ordered a full award of costs against an appellant for claiming that an outbuilding behind his property was built to temporarily accommodate builders, ruling that the appeal asked him to ‘...

Enforcement: Council must pay costs for misinterpreting GPDO

12.02.2019

Matt Moody

Colchester Borough Council has been ordered to pay costs for pursuing enforcement action against two shipping containers that were found to be permitted development.

Enforcement: Appellant admits altering email evidence under oath

06.02.2019

Matt Moody

An appellant admitted under oath that he had produced false evidence showing that an email he had received in 2017 was sent in 2011, at an inquiry into enforcement action against his conversion of a South...

Enforcement: Claim that subdivision was carried out by mistake is ‘not believable’

31.01.2019

Matt Moody

Development Management & Enforcement | enforcement | Planning Law | South West | subdivision

An inspector has upheld an enforcement notice against an appellant who argued that a flat in Reading he was developing was divided into two ‘erroneously’, describing the claim as ‘not believable’.

Enforcement: Notice against outbuilding quashed under four-year rule

25.01.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has quashed an enforcement notice against an outbuilding in Stamford Hill under the four year rule, finding that even if 'no reasonable person' would consider the building a dwelling-house, it...

Appeals round-up: 9.4% enlargement of Cornwall village deemed unacceptable; Overlooked student flats would not combat loneliness

01.11.2018

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 27 October-2 November 2018

Enforcement: Split decision on 'cycling cafe' use of former pub

01.11.2018

Matt Moody

An inspector has partially overturned an enforcement notice against the use of a former pub near Reading as a cycling-themed cafe, repairs workshop and meeting place for riders.

Legal briefs: Heritage body in court over ancient tree ‘poisonings’; Colum Sands nursing home challenge fails

19.10.2018

Roger Milne

A round-up of legal news: 13 October-19 October, 2018

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Enforcement: Notice quashed after tenants’ sworn statements

17.10.2018

Matt Moody

An enforcement notice against the unauthorised subdivision of a flat in Leeds has been quashed in light of sworn statements by its tenants referring to ‘a high degree of satisfaction’ with the...

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