Frances10

Thanks everyone for the replies. Unfortunately she has said we have to apply for this lawful development certificate and she is not going to discuss it anymore!! I still can’t see why when we have shown her dated photos and written confirmation from building control.

I know in this day n age everyone has to tick boxes and cover themselves no matter what. And I do understand this can’t be helped and it isn’t really planners/enforcers fault at end of the day. It’s just a bit sad everyone is so scared of any retribution in all walks of life that sensible decisions don’t happen. Just unnecessary paperwork, costs and time delays.

Thanks again all. I really don’t want to stop my contractor for 8 weeks for something that I’ve given them the evidence for. Just feel if that’s not sufficient well that’s not really my problem and if they want to threaten me go ahead. Someone has already snitched to them today about work still going on. Even though we’re just making it safe n secure. Village life!

Thank you for your replies. They have actually asked us to cease building work. I have documented evidence and dated photos so fairly confident that we should get it. But asking us to stop and wait 8 weeks plus for this certificate when they can clearly see we started is the bigger problem. And as far as I can think is a total waste of time, money and paperwork. Jeez it takes weeks/months to get an answer from them but as soon as they think you’ve done something wrong they’re on you like a rash! No wonder they have such a high turnover of staff

Morning all Looking for any advice. We got planning permission for an extension 4 years ago . We started and dug out all trenches and filled a trench with concrete and had building control out for inspections and we also have date stamped photos for proof within the 3 year limit. Unfortunately, due to covid and unforeseen circumstances we had to stop the build. Now we have just started again someone has thought our PP has expired and reported it to the enforcement officer. The Planning department have requested we apply for a Lawful Dev Certificate which can take up to 8 weeks. We have shown them our evidence but still want us to apply for this. I just think it’s crazy and totally time wasting as the evidence is already there to be seen. Any thoughts anyone ?