Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 89449

Planning: Enforcement

Tabled: 11 November 2025
Answered: 20 November 2025

Question

Sir James Cleverly

Conservative — Braintree

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of (a) trends in the level of (i) delays and (ii) backlogs in the Planning Court and (b) the implications for his policies of the time taken to enforce a temporary stop notice.

Answer

Sarah Sackman
Temporary Stop Notice (TSN) is a planning enforcement tool available to local planning authorities to halt breaches of planning control on a temporary basis while they consider whether more substantive enforcement action is required.While the initial stag...
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