[F132WLocal authority power to carry out steps in an improvement noticeS
(1)This section applies where—
(a)an improvement notice has been served in relation to a relevant permanent site, and
(b)the licence holder fails to take the steps specified in the notice within the period so specified.
(2)The local authority which issued the improvement notice may—
(a)take any steps required by the improvement notice to be taken by the occupier, but which have not been so taken, and
(b)take such further action as the authority considers appropriate for ensuring that the condition specified in the improvement notice is complied with.
(3)Where a local authority proposes to take action under subsection (2), the authority must serve on the occupier of the relevant permanent site a notice which—
(a)identifies the land and the improvement notice to which it relates,
(b)states that the authority intends to enter onto the land,
(c)describes the action the authority intends to take on the land,
(d)if the person whom the authority proposes to authorise to take the action on its behalf is not an officer of the authority, states the name of that person, and
(e)sets out the dates and times on which it is intended that the action will be taken (in particular, when the authority intends to start taking the action and when it expects the action to be completed).
(4)The notice must be served sufficiently in advance of when the local authority intends to enter onto the land as to give the occupier of the relevant permanent site reasonable notice of the intended entry.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 32U-32W and cross-heading inserted (S.) (1.5.2017) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 14), ss. 75, 104(3); S.S.I. 2016/412, art. 2, sch.