Teaching planners about Enforcement
Martin Goodall reckons that a high proportion of enforcement notices that are quashed on appeal are set aside due to elementary legal errors in the enforcement procedure, especially in the drafting of the enforcement notice itself. At the risk of making his own work harder, Martin has been teaching planners how to avoid the legal pitfalls of enforcement in two workshops he conducted at this years’ Planning Summer School at Reading University.
Martin explains, “The idea was to run through some practical examples of defective enforcement notices, and to discuss with participants how to avoid these problems, as well as ways of avoiding bad practice in the enforcement process.”
