PART 4ENFORCEMENT
Stop notices
145Power of planning authority to issue stop notice
(1)
A planning authority may issue a stop notice if the authority—
(a)
issues an enforcement notice requiring an activity to be stopped within a period specified in the notice, and
(b)
considers that a relevant activity ought to be stopped before the end of that period.
(2)
“Relevant activity” means—
(a)
an activity the enforcement notice requires to be stopped;
(b)
any activity carried out as part of that activity or associated with it.
(3)
A stop notice must—
(a)
refer to the enforcement notice,
(b)
prohibit the carrying out of the relevant activity on the land to which the enforcement notice relates (or on any part of that land specified in the stop notice), and
(c)
specify the date on which it is to take effect.