Demolition man hit with county-wide injunction.
Waste Management World is reporting that a businessman has been punished for repeatedly flouting planning rules at sites across Manchester.
Peter George Cordwell, of PGC Demolition, received a two-year injunction at the Manchester Civil Justice Centre in the case, brought by Rochdale council.
The order means he will have to seek planning permission for any future development on any site in the borough – and risks prison if he breaks the rules again.
The council has previously obtained interim injunctions against Cordwell, but he continued to breach various regulations.
The authority has now applied for the borough-wide injunction, which is tougher than standard planning law and carries a maximum £20,000 fine for breaches, or imprisonment. Cordwell will also have to pay the council’s legal costs.
The case was brought following a series of breaches of planning law, including the establishment of a waste disposal centre on Chichester Street, which was operating without planning permission.
The operation involved the dumping and processing of waste materials using noisy crushing equipment, which disturbed residents in neighbouring properties. Work to construct a property on land at Collop Gate Farm in Heywood, was also started without permission and eight industrial units were constructed at a site in Sparth, again without planning permission.
On both occasions, the council issued stop notices, but Cordwell, who is based in Heywood, breached them.
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