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<Text>Where there has been a breach of planning control of a description set out in the first column of the Table, no enforcement action may be taken in respect of the breach after the end of the period specified in the corresponding entry in the second column.</Text>
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<tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Carrying out operations on land without planning permission</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">4 years beginning with the day the operations were substantially completed</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Making a change in the use of a building to use as a dwelling or (if the building was previously used as one or more dwellings) to use as a different number of dwellings</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">4 years beginning with the day the breach took place</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Any other breach of planning control</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">10 years beginning with the day the breach took place</td></tr></tbody>
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<Text>Subsection (1) does not prevent—</Text>
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<Text>a breach of condition notice being served in respect of a breach of planning control at any time when an enforcement notice has effect in respect of the breach;</Text>
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<Text>enforcement action being taken in respect of a breach of planning control during the 4 years beginning with the day any other enforcement action (or purported enforcement action) was taken in respect of the breach.</Text>
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