The High Court in England has issued an arrest warrant for a farmer who has failed to demolish the mock Tudor castle he built and hid behind straw bales for 4 years. Robert Fidler’s long running planning saga began in 2007 when the planning authority served enforcement notices requiring the building to be demolished.

On 28th September 2015 the Department of the Environment published the Strategic Planning Policy Statement for Northern Ireland (SPPS). The SPPS will eventually reduce 20 separate planning policy statements (PPSs) into one but for the moment the only PPSs cancelled by the SPPS are PPS1 General Principles, PPS5 Retailing and Town Centres and PPS9 The Enforcement of Planning Control.