planning enforcement

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...

England round-up: Brokenshire outlines permitted development plans; Spring Statement 2019 measures

15.03.2019

Laura Edgar

A round-up of planning news in England: 9 March-15 March, 2019

Unauthorised development in Croydon / Croydon Council

South London homeowner fined for illegal extension

14.03.2019

Laura Edgar

A Croydon resident has been directed to pay a confiscation order and a fine for illegally extending and converting an outbuilding into a flat, which was then rented out.

England round-up: More than 100 councils face action in housing delivery test; Reports published on high street health

22.02.2019

Laura Edgar

A round-up of planning news in England: 16 February-22 February, 2019

England round-up: More than 150,000 social rent homes lost in six years; Government urged to act over community-led homes

07.02.2019

Laura Edgar

A round-up of planning news in England: 2 February-8 February, 2019

Coventry secures fine for failure to comply with enforcement notice

08.01.2019

Laura Edgar

Coventry | Development Management & Enforcement | planning enforcement | West Midlands

The owner of The Farmhouse Restaurant on Beechwood Avenue has been fined for failing to comply with a planning enforcement notice to remove a marquee that has been in use for the past two years.

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