planning enforcement

Appeal: Edinburgh part-time holiday let is ‘material change of use’

04.09.2018

Development Management & Enforcement | holiday let | Leisure & Tourism | planning enforcement | Scotland

A reporter has upheld an enforcement notice against an Edinburgh flat that was let as holiday accommodation for only 44 days in 2017 and 30 days in 2018, ruling that a ‘material change of use’...

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Enforcement: Inspector grants planning permission for residential gypsy site

30.08.2018

Laura Edgar

Development Management & Enforcement | Lichfield | planning enforcement | traveller pitches | West Midlands

An inspector has quashed an enforcement notice and approved a residential gypsy caravan site in Staffordshire, taking into consideration the best interests of the children involved in the case.

High Court throws out bid to overturn Ashford planning breach injunction

13.08.2018

Huw Morris

Ashford Borough Council has seen off a bid to overturn a High Court injunction against a group that had unlawfully created a mobile home site.

Brent bungalow head tenant fined £20,000 for neglect

19.07.2018

Laura Edgar

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

Willesden Magistrates Court has found a renter guilty of breaking housing management regulations after a property in Brent was described as a ‘deathtrap’.

PINS rates its performance as ‘unacceptable’

16.07.2018

Laura Edgar

The Planning Inspectorate (PINS) has described its own performance in England as mixed, and for many customers ‘unacceptable’, as it publishes its annual report showing that it failed to meet some of its planning and enforcement appeal decision targets.

Arlingham landowner guilty of planning breaches

09.07.2018

Laura Edgar

Development Management & Enforcement | planning enforcement | South West | Stroud District Council

A landowner has been found guilty of breaching a planning enforcement notice for two buildings he did not take down and which were built without planning permission on his farm in Arlingham.

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Enforcement teams lack resources to tackle unauthorised development

25.06.2018

Laura Edgar

The RTPI’s National Association of Planning Enforcement (NAPE) has reported that complexity and cost are preventing councils from tackling unauthorised developments in England.

Illegal HGV business owner pleads guilty to planning breaches

14.06.2018

Laura Edgar

Development Management & Enforcement | East Midlands | North West Leicestershire District Council | planning enforcement

A landowner and a business owner have pleaded guilty to breaching planning regulations for running a vehicle sales business from a Leicestershire farm without permission.

Illegal HMO uncovered as London council continues enforcement crackdown

12.04.2018

Laura Edgar

brent council | Development Management & Enforcement | HMO | London | planning enforcement

Enforcement officers at Brent Council have raided a property off Preston Road to find an unlicensed House in Multiple Occupation (HMO).

Enforcement: Change of use to hotel granted for private guests only

11.04.2018

Laura Edgar

An inspector has quashed Salford City Council’s decision to refuse a retrospective planning application for the change of use of a drinking establishment (A4) to a hotel (C1), provided the hotel is for private guests only.

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