Enquiries of the Local Authority ... bite size
Enquiries of the Local Authority contain a number of standard enquiries which are answered by the relevant local authority. The enquiries concern the following matters:
- Planning and building decisions and pending application
- Planning designations and proposals
- Roadways, footways and footpaths
- Public Rights of Way
- Land required for public purposes
- Land to be acquired for road works
- Drainage matters
- Nearby road schemes
- Nearby railway schemes
- Traffic schemes
- Outstanding notices
- Contravention of building regulations
- Notices, orders, directions and proceedings under Planning Acts
- Conservation area
- Compulsory purchase
- Contaminated land
- Radon gas
- Assets of community value
There are also a number of option enquiries which can be raised with there local authority where appropriate. These optional enquiries cover:
- Road proposals by private bodies
- Advertisements
- Completion notices under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990
- Parks and countryside
- Pipelines
- Houses in multiple occupation
- Noise abatement
- Urban development areas
- Enterprise zones, local development order and business improvement districts
- Inner urban improvement areas
- Simplified planning zones
- Land Maintenance notices
- Mineral consultation and safeguarding areas
- Hazardous substance consents
- Environmental and pollution notices
- Food safety notices
- Hedgerow notices
- Flood defence and land drainage consents
- Common land and town or village greens.