Guide to taking part in enforcement appeals - If you want to comment on someone else's appeal - January 2004
(This web version was last updated February 2008 to include the change in governing body from ODPM to CLG)
Contents
- The enforcement appeals process
- How you will find out about the appeal
- What you can do
- The written procedure
- The hearing procedure
- The inquiry procedure
- Appeal Costs Awards
- The Decision
- Complaints section
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The High Court
- Contacting us
Appendices:
- Appendix 1 (diagram of written procedure)
- Appendix 2 (diagram of hearing procedure)
- Appendix 3 (diagram of inquiry procedure)
- Appendix 4 (Inspector’s Code of Conduct)
- Appendix 5 (Data Protection and Privacy in the Planning Inspectorate)
Planning Inspectorate
Quality statement
We aim to provide the following in the appeal process:
- clear, prompt and polite advice and information;
- quick and efficient handling of your appeal;
- an open exchange of views between the people involved in the appeal;
- fair and unbiased decisions by appropriately qualified people;
- clear, logical decisions and reports;
- a quick and thorough complaints procedure; and
- a service that gives the public confidence in us.
If you need this document in large print, on audio tape, in Braille or in
another language please contact our helpline on 0117 372 8075
About the Planning Inspectorate
We are part of the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) and the National Assembly for Wales. We deal with enforcement appeals for England from our Bristol office and enforcement appeals in Wales from our Cardiff office. The Inspectors, who decide most of the appeals, have a variety of backgrounds. These include town planning, surveying, and engineering, architecture and law. We choose Inspectors carefully and train them thoroughly.
Where this booklet refers to the Inspector as “he” this may also be “she”.
This booklet explains the enforcement appeal procedure for appeals in England. If you want advice about appeals in Wales you should contact our Cardiff office. The information it contains was correct when it was published. But it has no legal status. We will deal with every appeal as efficiently as we can, but to do this we rely on everyone's co-operation.
