PART 4ENFORCEMENT
Temporary stop notices
121Restrictions on power to issue temporary stop notice
(1)
A temporary stop notice may not prohibit—
(a)
the use of a building as a dwelling, or
(b)
the carrying out of an activity of a description, or in circumstances, specified in regulations.
(2)
A temporary stop notice may not prohibit the carrying out of an activity that has been carried out (whether or not continuously) for at least 4 years before the day a copy of the notice is first displayed in accordance with section 120.
(3)
For the purposes of subsection (2) any period during which the activity was authorised by planning permission must be ignored.
(4)
Subsection (2) does not prevent a temporary stop notice prohibiting—
(a)
the carrying out of operations on land or of any activity incidental to them, or
(b)
the depositing of waste on land.