Doctor Drivel wrote:

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A friend of mine at work has hardstanding for 3 cars at the rear of his
property, he submitted planning permision for a garage, it was refused
on an objection by the highways department that by building a garage he
would reduce the equivelent parking space to 2 cars from 3, this they
claim will increase the possibility of people parking in the road. He
has ignored the refusal and is building it anyway it will be
interesting to see if they check up on him and if so what the outcome
would be

They can make him pull the garage down. If it gets through without them
noticing, in years to come he may need to demolish it when selling, if a
sharp lawyer looks into it.

ISTR planning permission can't be enforced after a certain number of
years.

MBQ