Planning Enforcements

Planning policy encourages the planners to enforce unauthorised development in accordance with planning law. For less serious breaches you are often required to submit a planning application within a timeframe to the local planning authority.

A Planning Contravention Notice is a precursor to an Enforcement Notice, and is subject to timescales requiring answers to questions on dates, ownership, use, that should be responded to.

If you receive and Enforcement  Notice beware,  you are on a strict timetable and   you need   to appeal usually within 28 days, or the notice takes effect.

You can build what you like. Until you receive an Enforcement Notice you have not broken the law, but the final  outcome may be, following a failed appeal , that you are required to demolish what you have built.

Professional help to deal with the minefield of  planning enforcement takes some of the stress away from a very technical area of planning administration.