Planning permission for catios, cat breeding outhouses and cat shelters (and neighbour problems)

Pictured from left to right are George, Toby, Mia, Kevin and Chester in their ‘catio’ in Blackpool

There has been a series of high-profile, media-reported examples in which individuals have failed to obtain planning permission before they operated a cat breeding facility or shelter from their home or built a catio in their front yard. In the UK it is called “planning permission”. In the USA it’s about zoning and whether …

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Cat rescue runs into problems with local authority zoning (planning) laws

Alexis Lewis and kitten with a URI

CHIEFLAND, FLORIDA-NEWS AND COMMENT: Lexi’s Kitty Corner operates, to the best of my knowledge, from the home of the founder of this non-profit charity, whose name is Alexis Lewis. The moral of her story is that anyone who wishes to found an animal rescue organisation from their home needs to check zoning (planning) laws …

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