Planning Enforcement Charter 2024

Planning breaches include:

• work being carried out which requires planning permission or a related consent
• an unauthorised change of use
• failure to comply with conditions attached to a permission or consent
• departures from drawings or documents approved as part of a planning permission or other consent

We do undertake proactive monitoring of approved developments; however, it is not possible to monitor every development. Consequently, the public play an extremely important role in alerting the Council to, and providing information on, any possible breaches, whether or not that development has planning permission. 

Possible or known breaches are often identified by the public when purchasing a property, through the conveyancing process, via Property Enquiry Certificates which provide information on any planning notices that affect the property or land. The sales process is often a good opportunity to remedy existing breaches between the seller, buyer and the Council. Unresolved breaches of planning control can hinder or stop the sale, so the Council encourages all property owners to remedy breaches, even where it has been decided that Perth and Kinross Council will not take formal enforcement action.

You can check to see what needs planning permission on our website. You can also see if the developer already has planning permission and/or other consents in place, as well as any conditions that are attached to these, by using our Online Planning System.