Planning enforcement
ListenThe council expects land owners and developers to comply with planning legislation and not carry out development until the necessary planning permission has been obtained and indeed in most cases no problems arise.
If development takes place without permission the council has a full range of powers available to establish whether a breach of planning control has taken place. If so, the council will examine any harm that is caused as a result of the breach and determine any appropriate action to remedy such harm.
Enforcement complaints
If you wish to complain about work that you think is in breach of planning regulations you can use our online form to tell us.
Out-of-hours arrangements for bank holiday weekends
The council has put in place arrangements to ensure its staff are able to take action over extended weekends to deal with those who deliberately seek to exploit such times to carry out unauthorised developments.
If you are aware of activities such as building demolition, felling of protected trees or installation of mobile homes taking place over bank holiday weekends which you believe do not benefit from planning permission or tree preservation order consent please contact Forestcare on 01344 786500.
Enforcement documents
The presence of enforcement investigations against land or property can be researched on our online planning database in the following ways:
- By street name
- By enforcement case reference number
- By date
- By postcode
Please note that apart from enforcement notices and enforcement notice appeals all other documents relating to enforcement matters are confidential and cannot be viewed.
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