Planning enforcement in Waltham Forest

Planning enforcement is one of the more stressful parts of the planning system. People often assume that enforcement action means something has gone badly wrong, or that they are about to be forced to undo work immediately. In reality, the enforcement team in Waltham Forest is not out to get its residents and outcomes depend […]

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 […]

Barnet served more planning enforcement notices than almost every other council

While this article looks at enforcement data from 2022, our experience is that Barnet continues to be one of the most active planning enforcement authorities in England. Just Planning is a planning appeal specialist, and we appeal dozens of planning Enforcement Notices every year. Barnet is one of our busiest council areas. Government figures show […]

Enforcement action against unauthorised dormer roof extensions

Every month, we help homeowners who are facing planning enforcement action after building a dormer roof extension. In most cases, the situation has arisen through an innocent mistake. The homeowner believed the dormer was permitted development and did not require planning permission, only to be told later by the council that this was not the […]