Legality Of L.p.a. Enforcement Notice.

[notnutnut]

Hello and good morning all, I'm having much trouble with our local council with an enforcement notice they issued me that required me to 'remove all scaffolding and associated materials' from from the premises. I agreed with them that had the right to ask me to remove any third party materiel stored here and did so but said my own scaffolding would be staying since this place is a mixed use agricultural/horticultural property with a bungalow on it. I was intending to use the tubing to construct the skeletal frame of the new greenhouses with but the L.P.A. refused to accept this although I'm certain I'm correct and can prove it. To keep this short they now seek to imprison me if I don't pay the £5000 fine imposed. But just after last Christmas in the high winds I had to have a contractor shore up one of the big buildings (with scaffolding) to prevent it falling over. But this is then a contravention of the enforcement notice and I say proves their notice is not legally enforceable and maybe invalid, I've never heard of any premises of our category have a blanket no scaffolding ban imposed on them, it goes against common sense I'd say, any ideas anyone please ?

[tamborine]

Do you have trees that require scaffolding to cut them down, either on site or on contract use?

[notnutnut]

Tamborine, thanks, yes we do have tall trees but I've never used scaffolding for accessing them. Some of the buildings are 25-30 feet tall so I have used it for that purpose. They surely can't expect me to let the buildings fall over and I've just never heard of anyone having been asked to comply with such a requirement ever. H.R.A. maybe ?

[woofgang]

Have you taken proper legal advice?

[Peter Pedant]

Hi not nut
you havent posted for a year or two
I remember the cases

you have got quite far down the planning road - a fine of £5000 - which I imagine you defended and lost
so .... yes they can enforce an enforcement order
and yes before you ask if you have been fined, complying they will still come after you for five big ones.....

You are stuck in last years cases and it is not doing you any good