THIS CONSULTATION IS NOW CLOSED FOR COMMENTS
Consultation Dates: Friday 27 June 2025 until 5pm Friday 08 August 2025
In April 2024 members of the Full Council (Agenda Item 10) approved Public Consultation on an update to the Enforcement Charter. This guidance on planning enforcement issues was originally approved and adopted in 2017 and updated in 2019. Since then the Council declared a Housing Crisis in January 2022. As part of the Council's response to the Housing Crisis the Local Planning Authority were asked to investigate a number of planning enforcement issues where these had the potential to address the housing crisis. To this end, external Enforcement Consultants, Ivy Legal, were commissioned to investigate and advise on these enforcement cases. Whilst a number of these cases remain open one of the outcomes to the work of Ivy Legal was a review and update to the Enforcement Charter from 2019.
The Council are now looking to consult on this updated work, which will be adopted as the Isles of Scilly Enforcement Plan.
Local Enforcement Plans are not statutory plans (unlike Statements of Community Involvement or the Local Plan) and do not form part of the Development Plan. As a local policy document, however, the Planning Department is proposing to undertake consultation with the public and other stakeholders which is considered to be good practice. This will be for a 6-week period.
What we are consulting on:
We would like your views on the 'Isles of Scilly Local Enforcement Plan 2025'
How to respond to our consultation:
Comments on the content of the document should be sent through to the following online form:
Written comments can be sent through to us at:
When to respond to the consultation:
Our consultation on the Enforcement Plan will be open for 6 weeks between:
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Friday 27 June 2025 through to 5pm Friday 8 August 2025
Next steps:
At the end of the consultation period, all responses will be considered. Any amendments to the plan, as a result of consultation responses, will be taken to Full Council for approval and adoption.
All responses to this consultation will be anonymised before being published when the final version of the draft plan is presented at Full Council.
Last updated: 12 August 2025