Planning and local authority enforcement

Ensuring local authority enforcement is fair and proportionate. Assisting with appeals and protecting your interests.

If you receive a planning contravention notice, it is an offence not to respond. It is also an offence to breach an enforcement notice or a stop notice.

It is very important that these notices are challenged or appealed within strict time limits. If you miss the deadline to appeal a notice it can have far reaching consequences.

Local authorities have a wide range of powers in relation to amenity issues like noise, odour, dust, flooding, anti social behaviour and waste. These can be regulated under the Environmental Protection Act 1990, often through an abatement notice.

We can give you cost effective and practical legal advice on all of these issues. We can identify sensible and commercial solutions to the challenges you face.