Estate Agent Boards

My colleague Cllr Lesley Jones has a piece on estate agent boards here. One of the problems of tackling this sort of thing through enforcement action is picked up by a commentator to Lesley's post; how do the enforcement officers know when the property is let or sold? A second issue is overstretch among Brent Council's Planning enforcement team. This has already led to some relaxing of enforcement over more minor issues. Possibly it might make sense to approach the estate agents directly and agree a Code of Practice, rather than dealing with it on a case by case basis.