Agenda item

The Committee received an update in respect of the Council’s Planning Enforcement Service and performance. During the period 1 May 2021 to 31 August 2021 the Enforcement Team had received 77 new referrals. 28 cases were closed as no breach was found, 8 were resolved without any further action, 3 had formal notices served and 9 cases had retrospective planning applications submitted.

Since its last update, the Corporate Enforcement Team had added two additional staffing resources. As a consequence, the team aimed to increase performance by reviewing the overall number of open investigations, resolving the highest priority investigations at the earliest opportunity, and thus increasing officer availability to tackle and monitor new cases in a more expedient and proactive manner. 

The service was continuing to review the team’s internal processes, review and update the Uniform IT system and finalise all templates, including the completion of the Enforcement Register project.