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Planning enforcement often turns on getting the facts and the allegation right. These reports cover enforcement notices, injunctions, appeal grounds and the evidence needed when lawful use or immunity is disputed. We explain the decision without treating an individual outcome as a shortcut around the planning rules.For the background and current guidance, see our planning enforcement section and existing-use certificates and evidence.
A Hammersmith studio flats enforcement appeal succeeds on grounds (f) and (g), cutting reinstatement works and extending compliance for occupied flats.
An Essex farm dwelling enforcement appeal fails after the Inspector rejects the agricultural exception and finds no essential permanent rural worker need.
A Devon pub loses an enforcement appeal after its timber canopy is found too permanent to qualify as a moveable Class G structure.
A London shopfront enforcement notice is varied so later planning permission can provide an alternative route to lawful compliance.
An Epping Forest hardstanding LDC has failed after an Inspector treated 2023 resurfacing works as a fresh engineering operation.
Four East Riding farm homes escape demolition, but occupiers must still leave after six appeals fail and the enforcement notice is varied.
A Brent enforcement notice has been quashed after an Inspector found the property was an HMO, not the mixed flats and HMO use alleged.
An accountant failed to overturn a former pub enforcement notice after evidence of a client-facing Class E use fell short.
Inspector rejects a landlord’s bid to revive a former C4 use, while the decision contains a notable Article 4 date discrepancy.
The operator lost on immunity and longer hours, but Guildford’s limited notice still left the takeaway with deemed planning permission.
A Chesterfield enforcement notice failed after an Inspector found the alleged party venue was instead a mixed residential and short-term letting use.
Maidstone’s Yalding enforcement notice has been quashed after an Inspector found it alleged one residential use while describing a bungalow and separate static caravan occupied as two homes.
The Sevenoaks grey belt appeal tests the August 2026 NPPF as a West Kingsdown traveller site wins three years despite National Landscape and Ancient Woodland harm.
Brent enforcement appeal succeeds after an Inspector finds an unfinished shell was not yet a dwellinghouse, then grants permission for the building.
King Media’s long-running display covered a historic façade, but years of advertising income did not protect it from Hackney’s removal action.
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