Planning Enforcement Charter 2024

Enforcement Register

We maintain an Enforcement Register, which details all notices served by the Council. A list of recent Enforcement Notices is available on our website. 

Alternatively, it can be inspected in person, during normal office hours, by visiting Perth and Kinross Council, Pullar House, 35 Kinnoull Street, Perth, PH1 5GD.

Time Limits for Enforcement

Planning Enforcement action must be taken within strict time limits:

• a four-year limit applies to unauthorised operational development (the carrying out of building, engineering, mining or other operations in, on, over or under land) and change of use to a single dwellinghouse
• a ten-year limit applies to all other development including change of use (other than to a single dwellinghouse) and breaches of condition

There is no time limit restricting the commencement of Listed Building Enforcement Action or action concerning a Tree Preservation Order.