Agenda item

ENFORCEMENT ACTION BY WAY OF AN INJUNCTION AUTHORISED 

Report DRR20/007

Oral representations in support of enforcement action by way of an injunction were received at the meeting.

Members were advised that the site which was located within the Green Belt, had been sub-divided into 160 different plots.  For the past two years, the coach on the land had been occupied by two adults with young children.

It was noted from the report that the Council had issued two enforcement notices to address the problem however, these had been unsuccessful and the breach was still on-going.

The Chairman advised Members that prior to the commencement of the meeting, further documentation of a confidential nature had been submitted for Member consideration.  For that part of the agenda item and in accordance with the Council’s Constitution, the Chairman moved that the public be excluded, to allow Members to consider the Part 2 confidential information:-

Following the Committee’s consideration of the confidential information, members of the public were recalled to the room to hear Members’ decision.

Members having considered the report and representations, together with the additional information presented in Part 2 of the agenda, RESOLVED that:-

1)  it was necessary or expedient for an application to be made to the Court pursuant to Section 187B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended), for an injunction to be authorised to secure the removal of the coach and associated paraphernalia from the land known as Stella Fields, including any sub-plots and sites accessible from Stella fields and shown on the plan attached to this report;

2)  action be expedited.