Issue - meetings

To provide members with an overview of Planning Enforcement’s progress in maintaining service delivery from 2009-12 when broken down into constituent Area Forums and the cumulative weight of caseload and enforcement activity along with an update of cases received and closed for each ward and area for the first half of 2012-13.

The Committee considered a report, previously circulated, on Planning Enforcement’s progress in maintaining service delivery from 2009-12 when broken down into constituent Area Forums, and the cumulative weight of caseload and enforcement activity. The report also gave an update of cases received and closed for each ward and area for the first half of 2012–13.

In response to a question from the Committee, it was confirmed that there had been an increase in enforcement activity borough-wide including Northumberland Park and White Hart Lane, and this was reflected in the increase in cases and formal enforcement action. It was noted that the number of cases varied between wards as did formal enforcement activity, with less formal action in the west of the borough than the east, but with the proportion of cases resolved being similar, reflecting the different nature of breaches of planning between the two parts of the borough.