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Guidance: Enforcement appeals: procedural guide

Planning Inspectorate

September 12
06:37 2024

This guide includes details about:

  • responsibilities of the appellant, the local planning authority and other parties
  • who decides an appeal?
  • what is the timetable for an appeal and what are the rules?
  • what are the procedures?
  • can new material be introduced during the appeal process?
  • where will the decision be published?

Updates to this page

Published 6 March 2014
Last updated 12 September 2024 +show all updates
  1. Guide updated to include a reference to the new AI guide.

  2. Take account of the changes to enforcement brought in by the LURAReplace the customer email address with the customer formReplace DLUHC with MHCLG

  3. The guide has been updated to make it clearer that interested parties should submit their representations using our online search facility.

  4. Guidance updated following changes to processes after Covid, all references to Covid removed

  5. This guide has been updated to remove unnecessary duplication and become easier to follow. This is in line with the Inspectorates approach to making our content more user focussed.

  6. Clarifications around s319A and changes in the way we request documents

  7. MHCLG changed to DLUHC

  8. Amendments made to the hearing timetable

  9. Annexe I has been updated to bring it into line with Annexe N of the Procedural guide Planning.

  10. New legislation to allow PINS/the Inspector to decide (on behalf of the SoS) whether a combined procedure may be appropriate; andAnnexe H of the Enforcement Guide dealing with the procedural choice for redeterminations has been altered.

  11. The complaints procedure that was published in this booklet has been removed and the new complaints procedure is now available online.

  12. On 23 March 2016 the Planning Inspectorate published revised versions of its four procedural guides on Planning Appeals, Called-in Planning Applications, Enforcement Notice Appeals and Lawful Development Certificate Appeals. Each document highlights important changes.

  13. First published.

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