Chapter 4: Grant and Implementation of Planning Permission Chapter 5: Enforcement of Planning Controls Section 172ZA: Enforcement Warning Notice: England
Subsection (1) provides that a local planning authority can issue an enforcement warning notice on any land in England where it appears to the local planning authority that there has been a breach of planning control and that there is a reasonable prospect that if an application for planning permission were made for that development, planning permission would be granted.
	Subsection (2) specifies the content of the notice. The notice must state the matters that appear to the local planning authority to constitute the breach of planning control and that unless an application for planning permission is made within the period specified in the notice by the local planning authority, further enforcement action may be taken. Subsection (3) states that the notice must be served on the owner of the land and any other person having interest in the land that would be materially affected by the taking of any further enforcement action.
	Subsection (4) states that an enforcement warning notice has no bearing on the ability of a local planning authority to take another form of enforcement action.
	Subsections (4) and (5) amend section 188 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 as a consequence of inserting the new section 172ZA. This requires local planning authorities to include Enforcement Warning Notices on their enforcement registers.