Apr 12, 2021 | Legislation & Regulations, Planning Enforcement
12 Apr 2021 Guest post by our Planning Expert Colin Smith Another game changer for your development strategy…. Councils must support unplanned sites to deliver homes for first-time buyers, says government on 6 April 2021 according to Ellie Kahn and Richard...Mar 11, 2021 | Court Fine, Planning Enforcement
11 Mar 2021 A landlord who illegally turned a London property into 13 flats has been hit by nearly £200,000 in fines, costs and a confiscation order. Inanc Elitok pleaded guilty to ignoring two previous notices at a hearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court, in a case...Mar 1, 2021 | Planning Enforcement
01 Mar 2021 The legal team at Brent Council has secured a confiscation order worth nearly £740,000 against a landlord who rented out properties in Willesden in breach of planning enforcement notices. The council said it believed the order against Mohammed Mehdi Ali of...Mar 1, 2021 | Guest Post, Planning Enforcement
01 Mar 2021 Guest post by Joey Gardener New rules will stop developers squeezing tiny homes into small buildings through permitted development, but will space standards resolve quality and location concerns? Housing campaigners secured a significant victory in...Feb 23, 2021 | Planning Enforcement
23 Feb 2021 A landlord who built unlawful extensions to a family home and squeezed up to 14 people into the rooms has forfeited the rent he was paid in a planning enforcement prosecution. Jagtar Phagura created five bedrooms in extensions built without planning...Dec 22, 2020 | Court Fine, Other News, Planning Enforcement
22 Dec 2020 A major house builder has been ordered to pay what is understood to be the largest fine ever issued by a court in relation to a wildlife crime. On 8 December at Woolwich Crown Court, Bellway Homes pleaded guilty to the offence between 17 March 2018 and 17...
