Issue - meetings

Report of the Leader of the Council detailing a proposed revision of the Planning Enforcement Policy, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 14/15 13605)

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport and having received representations from a member of the public Cabinet agreed to remove the bold formatting in paragraph 4.2 of the policy.  Cabinet also considered recommendations from OSMC from their meeting on 16 October 2014 and accepted that the Planning Enforcement Policy enabled recurring and cumulative breaches be taken into consideration when enforcement action was determined.  The Committee also recommended that the use of letters threatening Section 215 notices be increased and that this role should not be undertaken by specialist Enforcement Officers.  Cabinet cautioned issuing too many Section 215 notices and suggested a review of how many had been issued before any decision to increase was made. 

Having taken the above into consideration, Cabinet then agreed the following:

To approve the revised Planning Enforcement Policy, attached as Appendix 1 to the report.