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At that stage you should have complained about the lack of PP and had enforcement action taken against him.
I assume this is for me.
I used to believe there are people in the council who go out and try to uphold the law regarding planning permission.
I now know this is not correct what happens is they want YOU to get the proof for them.
They will send a letter to the offender and warn them then after about 2 months they will send someone out, this is what they told me.
The reality is they send a letter out then if the offender has a good excuse eg he doesn't do it for money (in spite of the thousands he spends on advertising), then the inspector doesn't go out and visit the premises but they tell you that he does (at least that is what happened in my case).
I know this because I got talking to the enforcement inspector who told me he had not called to the premises to inspect what was going on.
So I had to go out and get more evidence of what was going on I left leaflets with the characters name and address and what he was doing, I left details of his web sites and details of how to find him in the phone book in the business section.
You know what I was told then, I had to go out and find one of his customers and get them to sign a sworn affidavit.
You can understand why DLRCC has a dismal record on enforcement issues.
I called in one day to report a listed building had its old sash windows removed illegally and uPVC installed I was told to bring them proof and they would act.