Enforcement of planning decisions

This annual update is for all those involved in the enforcement process. We will provide you with a review of recent changes and their impact on how the process should be managed.

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• Why you should attend this conference
• Who should attend?
• Benefits of attending
• Conference programme
• Quotes from previous participants
• In-house training
• CPD requirements

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Why you should attend this conference

This is the annual update for all those involved in the enforcement process. We will provide you with a review of recent changes and their impact of on how the process should be managed. We will provide an overview of environmental issues you may encounter, how the Environmental Information Regulations regime may affect how you manage and record your decision making processes on enforcement and any recent proposals which may affect the enforcement process.

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Who should attend?

• Enforcement officers
• Development management staff
• Solicitors both in local authorities and in private practice
• Planning consultants

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Benefits of attending

This conference will give you:

1. Current awareness
2. A different number of perspectives on enforcement process by the speakers from a range of professional disciplines
3. An insight into present and future enforcement agendas

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Conference programme

9.00 Registration and coffee

9.30 Welcome and introduction by the Chair

Anthony Dinkin QC, 2-3 Gray's Inn Square

9.40 Taking the decision to enforce

• The legislative background
• The general approach to planning enforcement
• Investigating the facts
• The political dimension
• Other considerations including the Local Ombudsman and Standards for England

Philip Kratz, Partner, DMH Stallard

10.20 The planning enforcement regime: how it interacts with other regulatory systems

Heidi Copland, Partner and Head of Planning, DMH Stallard

11.00 Coffee and networking

11.20 Lawful Development Certificates

• Review of the basics
• Lawfulness defined
• Some requirements of a LDC
• Specifying levels of use
• Breach of condition
• Creeping lawfulness
• Mixed uses

Andrew Kirby, Planning Inspectorate

12.00 How not to enforce: practical issues

• Common errors
• Basic health checks
• Identifying the breach of planning control
• Nullity and invalidity
• Possible remedies
• Inspectors' powers of correction on appeal
• Under-enforcement and section 173(11)

Jonathan Clay, 2-3 Gray's Inn Square

12.40 Panel discussion

1.00 Lunch

2.00 Enforcement issues from the planning consultant’s perspective

• Planning investigation
• Planning contravention notice
• Breach of condition notice
• Service of enforcement notice
• Grounds of Appeal
• Format of appeal
• 4 and 10 year rules
• Outcome of proceedings
• Failure to comply with notice

Tony Bowhill, Planning and Property Consultant, Bowhill Planning Partnership

2.40 Update on Enforcement Law

Celina Colqhuoun, 2-3 Gray's Inn Square

3.20 NAPE

• The role of enforcement in the planning process
• The role of NAPE in supporting enforcement officers
• New government or not - what does it matter
• Time for a new review or time to deliver on the previous one

Leslie Smith, Planning Enforcement Consultant

4.00 Panel discussion

4.20 Conclusion by chair

Anthony Dinkin

4.30 Close of conference

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Quotes from previous participants

q 'The conference is infromative and supplies details of current planning control and enforcement'

q 'Very well strucutred with panel questions being very useful'

q 'A useful overview of many different aspects of enforcement'

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In-house training

This conference can be presented exclusively for your organisation on an in-house basis. You can:

• Have the programme designed for your specific needs
• Choose your preferred date and location
• Save on staff travel, time and accommodation costs
• Maximise the impact of the training by putting an entire team through the same programme

To discuss any in-house requirements (including management skills), please contact Sarah Miller on 020 7960 5692 or e-mail sarah.miller@rtpiconferences.co.uk

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CPD requirements

This event is intended to help RTPI members with their CPD requirements.

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