Planning enforcement in Hillingdon
Planning enforcement is very stressful. Having spent your life savings on a new extension or some other development, the last thing you want is to get a letter from the council’s planning enforcement team requiring that it be pulled down. It doesn’t help that communications from planning enforcement tend to be formal and intimidating. Some […]
Is it worth appealing a refused planning application in Hillingdon?
Not all planning decisions are fair and you should never just accept refusal of planning permission. Sometimes the council is right and your application deserved to be refused, but often the council has got it wrong and the decision can be challenged. London Borough of Hillingdon fought 114 appeals in 2025 and lost about 36% […]
Why planning applications for extensions are often refused in Hillingdon
Homeowners in Hillingdon are often taken by surprise when their application for an extension is suddenly refused. They thought their proposal to be small in size and similar to other extensions along the street, and had confidently assumed it would sail through. Yet refusals are common. This is not always because an extension is unacceptable […]
Barnet served more planning enforcement notices than almost every other council in 2022
Just Planning is an appeal specialist and we appeal dozens of planning Enforcement Notices every year. Barnet is one of our busiest council areas and government figures have revealed that they issued Enforcement Notices than almost any other council in England in the year to June 2022. There were 3,501 Enforcement Notices issued in England […]
Our repeated successes on householder planning appeals in west and north-west London
Our repeated successes on householder planning appeals in west and north-west London We have secured a large number of appeal successes following refusals of planning permission for householder development across west and north-west London, particularly in the boroughs of London Borough of Harrow, London Borough of Hillingdon, London Borough of Hounslow, London Borough of Brent and London Borough of Barnet. A […]