Durham area? Hope you will complain to your Council

It's not sw. It's the same or anyone and everyone so long as you keep a low profile and no one rumbles you!

When I worked for the Council Tax office, the rules were than we couldn't backdate for more than six years.

This story is a classic example of the rotten , corrupt state of power, influence and entitlement in this country.

Though this is interesting

From the government website:

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What are the time limits for taking enforcement action?
In most cases, development becomes immune from enforcement if no action is taken:

within 4 years of substantial completion for a breach of planning control consisting of operational development;
within 4 years for an unauthorised change of use to a single dwellinghouse;
within 10 years for any other breach of planning control (essentially other changes of use).
These time limits are set out in section 171B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

However, the time-limits set out above do not prevent enforcement action after the relevant dates in certain circumstances. These are:

section 171B(4)(b) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, which provides for the taking of “further” enforcement action in respect of any breach of planning control within 4 years of previous enforcement action (or purported action) in respect of the same breach. This mainly deals with the situation where earlier enforcement action has been taken, within the relevant time-limit, but has later proved to be defective, so that a further notice may be issued or served, as the case may be, even though the normal time-limit for such action has since expired. This is known as the “second bite” provision

where there has been deliberate concealment of a breach of planning control, local planning authorities may apply for a planning enforcement order to allow them to take action after the time limits in section 171B have expired

where a person has deliberately concealed a breach of planning control, the courts have found that in these circumstances, the time limits in section 171B do not engage until the breach has been discovered (see Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and another v Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council and Bonsall / Jackson v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government).

Therefore, in cases of deliberate concealment, a local planning authority may decide to serve an enforcement notice ‘out of time’ or apply for a planning enforcement order. It is for the local planning authority to decide which approach is appropriate in each case.

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This does not surprise me.

We have the same MP maiszie, he really has done nothing so far.

Jaberwok

I expect it's subject to time limitation which expired years ago and is now null and void.

Certainly the planning permission bit is subject to time limitation.

Yet someone putting a garden shed in the wrong place would be fined, I'm betting.

I expect it's subject to time limitation which expired years ago and is now null and void.

That is disgusting and clearly not an innocent mistake.

I don't think that my MP, tory boy Holden, would be at all helpful.

I wonder if there is some ruling on the payment of retrospective Council tax or if it is at the discretion of the council.

What I am mildly surprised by is the fact that there were two extra houses built on the site without planning permission...

Missing commas. Sorry!

I wonder Biba if there is anything that this bunch of crooks can do that they will actually be held accountable for?

It seems they can steal money from the British tax payer and break the laws of the land with impunity.