Post in Local vs Global
http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/index.cfm?request=b1151084&action=showDetail&application_number=BH2008%2F01039 the planning law allows the applicant to use the premises until the LA slap an enforcement order etc: after all, this is not Russia, is it? (or whatever the current metaphor for a dictatorship...) note that the Refusal was under delegated powers i.e. by an officer, not by a committee.