The Council successfully complete planning enforcement works

The Council have recently undertaken work in connection to a planning enforcement notice in the County.

Council officers attended a site in Llandegla to remove multiple scrap vehicles that were stored on the land illegally. This was the second time in as many years that land in this area and owned by the same person had been cleared by the Council due to harmful environmental effects.

This project is an example of the wider work that the Council are carrying out in the County to tackle the most harmful breaches of planning control.

Since completing the clearance works, the Council successfully obtained an injunction at Wrexham Magistrates Court, to prevent the landowner from returning any scrap motor vehicles and other items to his land in Llandegla.

Councillor Alan James, Lead Member for Local Development and Planning said:

“This successful legal action on the part of the Council once again shows that it takes environmental harm seriously. Individuals that attempt to evade planning processes and continue to blight our areas of outstanding natural beauty will be dealt with in the strongest terms.

“I would encourage residents who have concerns about any potential damage and harm to the natural and built environment to contact the Council directly, and I can assure residents that where environmental harm is clearly identified investigations will take place.

“I would like to thank the Council's planning officers and the Local Member for their hard work and dedication in progressing these difficult cases.”

For more information on the Council’s planning procedures visit our website.