Outstanding planning enforcement cases (FOI)

​Request

The Environment Minister was recently quoted in the media as stating that the backlog of planning enforcement cases has hit 300 because the department is seriously under resourced.

Please provide a list showing details of the current backlog of planning enforcement cases, and how long these have been outstanding.

Response

Please find attached a spreadsheet detailing the compliance number, received date and a brief summary for each of the 260 outstanding cases.

Pending compliance cases

This information has been anonymised to ensure that we do not release any personal information in accordance with Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.

Article applied

Article 25 Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.