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Dealing with a planning enforcement issue?
Planning enforcement can move quickly and the right response depends on exactly what the council is alleging and what stage the case has reached. Planning Geek can review the position, explain your options and help with the next step.
Understanding enforcement and the investigation stage
- Types of planning enforcement
- The order of planning enforcement
- Someone reported me to planning enforcement
- How to report a breach of planning control
- How a planning enforcement investigation works
- Planning Contravention Notice (PCN)
- Section 330 Notice
- Interview under caution
- The planning ombudsman
- Unauthorised encampments
Notices, time limits and enforcement tools
- Enforcement Warning Notice
- Enforcement Notices and how to appeal
- Section 70C: when a council can decline an application
- Section 173A: changing, relaxing or withdrawing an enforcement notice
- Enforcement time limits
- Planning Enforcement Orders and concealment
- Under-enforcement
- Stop Notices
- Temporary Stop Notices
- Breach of Condition Notices
- Section 215 Notices
- Listed building enforcement
- Advertisement enforcement
- Tree Preservation Order offences
- Section 106 breaches
- Hazardous substances enforcement
- Crown land enforcement
Appeals, compliance and consequences
- Enforcement appeal grounds
- Ignoring an enforcement notice
- The enforcement register
- Human rights and planning enforcement
- Buying a house with an enforcement problem
- Completion notices
Court action and direct intervention
Related application routes
Other Enforcement Sections
- Planning Enforcement (overview)
- Types of planning enforcement
- The order of enforcement & where you can appeal
- Someone reported me: what happens now
- How to report a breach of planning control
- The planning ombudsman
- How a planning enforcement investigation works
- Interview under caution
- Planning Contravention Notice (PCN)
- Section 330 Notice
- Unauthorised encampments
- Enforcement Warning Notice
- Retrospective Planning Permission
- Enforcement Notices & how to appeal
- Section 173A: relaxing or withdrawing an enforcement notice
- Under-enforcement
- Reverting to a previous lawful use
- Enforcement appeal grounds
- Human rights and enforcement
- Ignoring an enforcement notice
- The enforcement register
- Buying a house with an enforcement problem
- Completion notices
- Enforcement Time Limits
- Planning Enforcement Order & deliberate concealment
- Stop Notices & Breach of Condition Notices
- Breach of Condition Notice
- Temporary Stop Notice
- Listed Building Enforcement
- Section 215 Notice: untidy land
- Listed buildings at risk
- Direct action: the council does the work
- Planning injunction
- Section 106 breach: what happens if you break one
- Tree preservation order offence
- Advertisement enforcement
- Crown land enforcement
- Hazardous substances enforcement
Planning Enforcement Index Page Updated: 26th August 2026