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This Draft Enforcement Plan sets a framework for how the Council and it’s Planning Service will handle complaints and any subsequent investigations into breaches of planning control. It sets out clearly the aims and background to planning enforcement, and the scope of enforcement powers.

This Draft Enforcement Plan sets out priorities for responses to complaints and clarifies the timescales for response by Planning Officers. This policy document will also seek to formulise how Councillors and the general public will be kept up to date in relation to the enforcement work being carried out by the Planning Officers.

(1)      Note the 30 responses received during the public consultation on the previous Draft Enforcement Plan.  A summary of these responses has been set out in Appendix 2, along with the influence these responses have made to this amended Draft Enforcement Plan.  The full response from the Epsom Civic Society, as well as the influence this response has had on the amended Draft Enforcement Plan, has been set out in Appendix 3. 

(2)      That Members resolve to adopt the amended Draft Enforcement Plan attached at Appendix 1.

(3)      That “breaches of condition where serious harm/implication is caused”, be included under Level 1 (highest category) as a top level priority for planning enforcement investigations. (page 11 of Appendix 1 to the report).

(4)      That a review of the Planning Enforcement Plan be conducted by the Committee in 12 months’ time.

The Committee received a report regarding the Draft Enforcement Plan.  The Plan sets a framework for how the Council and it’s Planning Service will handle complaints and any subsequent investigations into breaches of planning control. It sets out clearly the aims and background to planning enforcement, and the scope of enforcement powers.

This Draft Enforcement Plan sets out priorities for responses to complaints and clarifies the timescales for response by Planning Officers. This policy document will also seek to formulise how Councillors and the general public will be kept up to date in relation to the enforcement work being carried out by the Planning Officers.

Following consideration, it was resolved:

(1)          To note the 30 responses received during the public consultation on the previous Draft Enforcement Plan.  A summary of these responses has been set out in Appendix 2, along with the influence these responses have made to this amended Draft Enforcement Plan.  The full response from the Epsom Civic Society, as well as the influence this response has had on the amended Draft Enforcement Plan, has been set out in Appendix 3. 

(2)          To adopt the amended Draft Enforcement Plan attached at Appendix 1.

(3)          That “breaches of condition where serious harm/implication is caused”, be included under Level 1 (highest category) as a top level priority for planning enforcement investigations. (page 11 of Appendix 1 to the report).

(4)          That a review of the Planning Enforcement Plan be conducted by the Committee in 12 months’ time.