Learn about the Planning Enforcement function, report unauthorised works, view the register of Enforcement Notices and monitor the status of an Enforcement case.
What is Planning Enforcement?
Planning Enforcement is a discretionary function used to ensure that planning development is carried out in accordance with approved planning permission and that any unauthorised development is brought under control in order to protect public interest. As such, we can take action if any development is carried out for which planning or other permission is required but not obtained or where conditions on a permission are not complied with.
Some types of planning control breaches are criminal offences such as carrying out unauthorised works to listed buildings or the display of advertisements without consent, although some advertisements benefit from deemed consent. Other development carried out without planning permission is not a criminal offence but it may expose the owner of the land to possible enforcement action.
Our aim is to control unauthorised development within North East Lincolnshire and we will make full use of the powers available to us to achieve this. However, we will always aim to strike the right balance when assessing whether it is appropriate to take formal enforcement action. In order to determine the level of action that we take we refer to our Planning and Highways Enforcement Manual.