Prospective
(1)A planning authority may not issue a stop notice after the enforcement notice to which it relates has taken effect.
(2)A stop notice may not prohibit the use of a building as a dwelling.
(3)A 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 served under section 147.
(4)For the purposes of subsection (3) any period during which the activity was authorised by planning permission must be ignored.
(5)Subsection (3) does not prevent a 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.
Commencement Information
I1S. 146 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 409(2)