High Court backs council's conservation enforcement notice despite loss of key document

Stoke-on-Trent City Council was entitled to prosecute a property owner who installed plastic windows without planning permission, even though it had lost the original legal document preventing such work, the High Court has ruled.

by Gavin McEwan
The Royal Courts of Justice - image: David Castor (CC0)
The Royal Courts of Justice - image: David Castor (CC0)

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