Issue - meetings

The Committee considered a request for enforcement action regarding an unauthorised change of use of amenity land to residential garden and the erection of a fence.

RESOLVED that

1.    An Enforcement Notice be issued in respect of the above land requiring the following within three months of the notice taking effect:

a) Permanently remove from the land the 1.95m high close boarded timber fence, concrete posts and gravel boards erected along the boundary of the amenity land;

b) Cease the use of the amenity land as residential garden;

c) Re-instate the approved boundary of the residential curtilage with a wall or fence no greater than 2m in height; and

d) Remove from the land all material, rubble, debris and paraphernalia arising from compliance with the above.

2. The Director of Democratic and Legal Services be instructed to issue an Enforcement Notice under Section 172 of the Town & Country Planning Act 1990 as amended, and officers be authorised in the event of non-compliance to prosecute under Section 179 of the Town & Country Planning Act 1990 or appropriate power and/or take direct action under Section 178.