Chapter 4: Grant and Implementation of Planning Permission Chapter 5: Enforcement of Planning Controls Section 115: Time limits for enforcement Effect
Subsection (1) inserts new subsection (1)(a) into section 171B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 to substitute the four year time limit with ten years, in England. It also inserts subsection (1)(b) to retain the four year time limit in Wales. This allows local planning authorities in England to take enforcement action against unauthorised development consisting of building, engineering, mining or other operations in, on, over or under land up to ten years after the date on which the operations were substantially completed.
	Subsection (2) inserts new subsection (2)(a) into section 171B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 to substitute the four year time limit with ten years, in England. It also inserts subsection (2)(b) to retain the four year time limit in Wales. This allows local planning authorities in England to take enforcement action against unauthorised development consisting of a change of use of any building to use as a single dwelling house up to ten years after the date of the breach.