Chapter 4: Grant and Implementation of Planning Permission Chapter 5: Enforcement of Planning Controls Section 117: Enforcement warning notices Background
This section creates a new power for a local planning authority in England to issue an enforcement warning notice. It inserts a new section (section 172ZA) into the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, with amendments to existing sections 188 and 171A facilitating its inclusion within the wider enforcement process. This provides a new power for local planning authorities in England to use where they become aware of an unauthorised development that has a reasonable prospect of being acceptable in planning terms. The new power enables them to issue an enforcement warning notice asking the person concerned to submit a retrospective planning application within a specified period. The notice must state that if the application is not received within the specified period the local planning authority may take further enforcement action.