planning enforcement

Housing minister Esther McVey has committed £2 million to aid councils to ‘crack down on illegal developments’ in the green belt.

A Brent landlord has been found guilty of licensing breaches that made tenants’ lives a misery and been ordered to pay a £60,170 fine.

Haverfordwest Magistrates' Court has fined a man £15,000 for contravening a planning temporary stop notice and two charges of breaching an enforcement notice.

A landlord has been handed a suspended prison sentence after being found guilty of hiding families in windowless flats that didn’t have planning permission.