Agenda item

The Head of Planning and Building Control provided a report to update the Board in Planning Enforcement Service activity covering Quarter 1 of 2022/23.  The report included a breakdown of the requests for service received and induced details of key actions and enforcement case outcomes during the quarter.

Quarter 1 had continued to see an consistent high demand for investigations and enforcement ant this was reflected in the high level of development taking place throughout the borough.  It was pleasing to note that the service was now the 7^th highest nationally in terms of formal actions take to ensure effective enforcement.

The Service had issued 63 enforcement notices in the last financial year and would seek to continue to work with Elected Members and local communities to achieve the desired outcomes.  The number of formal actions undertaken by the Service had significantly increased prior to additional resources being devoted to planning enforcement and this was filtering through to an increase in appeal work and the number of appeal decision being received.

RESOLVED that the report be noted.