planning enforcement

Sevenoaks successful in hostel enforcement trial

12.12.2019

Laura Edgar

Development Management & Enforcement | planning enforcement | Sevenoaks District Council | South East

Woolwich Crown Court has fined the owners of a hostel in Swanley £14,000 for failing to comply with two planning enforcement notices.

£400k confiscation order issued to Westminster landlord

18.09.2019

Laura Edgar

A rogue Westminster landlord has been served with a confiscation order of £400,000 after illegally converting his three-bedroom home into eight flats.

£2m for councils to address ‘illegal’ green belt development

12.09.2019

Laura Edgar

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

England round-up: Reliance on traditional building methods will see government miss housing target; APPG discusses collaboration in neighbourhood planning

05.07.2019

Laura Edgar

A round-up of planning news in England: 29 June-5 July, 2019

Landlord to pay £60k fine for mistreating tenants

27.06.2019

Laura Edgar

brent council | Development Management & Enforcement | London | planning enforcement | Planning Law

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.

England round-up: HS2 could be scrapped, says Truss; Ealing Council serves solicitor with £500k confiscation order

07.06.2019

Laura Edgar

A round-up of planning news in England: 1 June-7 June, 2019

The Ridgeway, Manorbier Newton / Prembrokeshire National Park Authority

Pembrokeshire man fined £15k for breaching enforcement notice

13.05.2019

Laura Edgar

Cymru | Development Management & Enforcement | pembrokeshire | Pembrokeshire Coast National Park | planning enforcement

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

No hiding place: Planners and the Proceeds of Crime Act

South London council wins POCA order

01.05.2019

Laura Edgar

Development Management & Enforcement | London | planning enforcement | Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 | Southwark Council

Southwark Council has won over £1 million under a Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) order against a landlord who converted three flats into two cramped studios and bedsits.

Slough landlord receives suspended jail sentence for illegal flats

28.03.2019

Laura Edgar

Development Management & Enforcement | London | planning enforcement | Slough | South East

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.

Appeal: 'Special circumstances' at nursery in five-year green belt battle

15.03.2019

Matt Moody

A horticultural nursery in Berkshire can install a public sales area contrary to green belt regulations, an inspector has ruled, following a five-year legal battle that saw an intervention from Theresa...

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