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

An inspector has refused plans to convert a fortified defensive structure in the Essex countryside into a home under permitted development rules, because he was not persuaded that it was in agricultural use...

Plans to convert an office block in Beckenham town centre into flats under permitted development rules could lead to ‘indiscriminate street parking’, an inspector has ruled.

An enforcement notice has been upheld against a builder who argued ‘unconvincingly’ that the four poor-quality self-contained bedsits he had built in his rear garden were for the use of himself,...