Planning enforcement
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About planning enforcement
These pages explain:
- How the council can help with planning enforcement
- What we will do
- How you can help the council in dealing with possible breaches of planning and building control
- What is planning enforcement?
- The role of the council
- Enforcement priorities
- When the council should take action
- What information the council needs
- The council's commitment
- What actions the council can take
- How long enforcement action takes
Tell us about a breach of planning or building control
If you are still not satisfied what else can you do?
Planning and building control, along with all other departments within the borough council, are committed to providing a high quality service.
We try extremely hard to keep these high standards but know that sometimes things can, and do, go wrong.
In relation to planning matters, decisions taken by the council's planning officers will be made on planning merits, and it is inevitable that there will be some instances in planning and building control enforcement matters where the end result will not necessarily satisfy you.
If you are dissatisfied with the service you have received, we want to hear from you. We will try to put this right by use of the avenues made available to us, and with a view to ensuring that it does not happen again.
You can help us to help you by letting us know if:
- You are dissatisfied with the service you have received; or
- You feel the service you received was provided inefficiently of unfairly
In dealing with your planning enforcement complaint we will guarantee thoroughness, fairness, and confidentiality as far as is practicable.
If you are not happy with the way in which your planning or building control enforcement complaint was dealt with, or the manner in which any representative of the council has acted, the council has a formal complaints procedure.
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