Asking council for explaination for why enforcement has taken so long

MEM62

rabbituk said:

This has been going for over 4 years and it feels very unfair. I have emailed them to ask for an explanation as to what is going on and I get no response. I have been polite in all my communications but this lack of response is a frustrating to deal with.

Have you raised the matter with your MP?  He may have a bit more clout.  

rabbituk said:

This neighbour is well connected and his father was a rumored to be mason when he was alive.

Not sure what that has to do with it.  

rabbituk

MEM62 said:

rabbituk said:

This has been going for over 4 years and it feels very unfair. I have emailed them to ask for an explanation as to what is going on and I get no response. I have been polite in all my communications but this lack of response is a frustrating to deal with.

Have you raised the matter with your MP?  He may have a bit more clout. 

I have not done this. I've only raised it with my local councilor so far but will do this if the councilor fails to get back to me by the end of this week.

rabbituk said:

This neighbour is well connected and his father was a rumored to be mason when he was alive.

Not sure what that has to do with it.  

I perhaps should have said in the initial post that when I first expressed to my neighbour that I was not happy with the container having been placed on the land, his response was that he knows people in the planning department and was informally told that it would not be an issue. However I agree that it is probably speculative at best and is better omitted in my complaint.

TheJP

You don't know if the council has contacted the neighbour and asked for the container to be removed or any other correspondence. The council doesn't have a duty to keep you informed unless the issue is affecting you or your property and you made a formal complaint.

MEM62

rabbituk said:

MEM62 said:

rabbituk said:

This has been going for over 4 years and it feels very unfair. I have emailed them to ask for an explanation as to what is going on and I get no response. I have been polite in all my communications but this lack of response is a frustrating to deal with.

Have you raised the matter with your MP?  He may have a bit more clout. 

I have not done this. I've only raised it with my local councilor so far but will do this if the councilor fails to get back to me by the end of this week.

rabbituk said:

This neighbour is well connected and his father was a rumored to be mason when he was alive.

Not sure what that has to do with it.  

I perhaps should have said in the initial post that when I first expressed to my neighbour that I was not happy with the container having been placed on the land, his response was that he knows people in the planning department and was informally told that it would not be an issue. However I agree that it is probably speculative at best and is better omitted in my complaint.

That may have been a tactic for deflecting the issue in hope that you would drop it.  At the risk of someone coming and citing an exception to the rule, I would say that planning is based on the rules, not who you know.  Either way, informal consent or approval carries no weight.