andyb
15-Sep-2005, 10:16
Some of you may remember i was asking about a planning application that had appeared on a small bit of land on my little estate. It was sold with outline permission for 2 4 bed houses...........a money grabber bought it and applied to build 5 starter homes on it!
Everyone wrote in sending pictures etc. They cancelled that application and he started another, do the complaints trasnsfer over..... No, you have to complain again send in pictures again. So thats 3 aplication, and no cross referred!
Well its been a learning curve with things like PPG/3 etc, but weve fought the process of, biased planning Officer, lack of notice/ information, out of touch committees, smarmy builders, not to scale drawings with poetic licence and so on.......and got a site visit from the committee!! Victory No 1!
Of course they wouldnt say when they were going to visit, but the builder obviously knew as 4 hrs before the visit, he had the grass cut on the area. Still we managed to put up a good view when only 3 from 8 arrived to view!
Anyway, yesterday was the rematch. we arrived at the planning meeting to find on the notes the Planning Officers reccomendation was for approval! with no change from the first meeting.
However the first case to be heard was for the erection of a comms mast. One of the Councillors was going on and on about how wrong this was.........10 mins later she coughed that her house was opposite it! Everyone laughed and jeered.
Once again, unlike a Court of law, the committee heard the objections first before the builder got up to seal his application. Well everyone laughed again, only an 80s throwback !! pointy boots and a pony tail to match that false one in Only fool and Horses!!!!
Yet again they spoke about issues that we had pictures to prove, and they refused to look at the pictures!
Time for the committee to deliberate, come on come on.........and 5-2 we won, they apposed the proposal!!!
Victory No 2!
Best cocking entertainment ive had in years!
I bet its costing him a fortune, and now appeal or back to the plans and start again!
Everyone wrote in sending pictures etc. They cancelled that application and he started another, do the complaints trasnsfer over..... No, you have to complain again send in pictures again. So thats 3 aplication, and no cross referred!
Well its been a learning curve with things like PPG/3 etc, but weve fought the process of, biased planning Officer, lack of notice/ information, out of touch committees, smarmy builders, not to scale drawings with poetic licence and so on.......and got a site visit from the committee!! Victory No 1!
Of course they wouldnt say when they were going to visit, but the builder obviously knew as 4 hrs before the visit, he had the grass cut on the area. Still we managed to put up a good view when only 3 from 8 arrived to view!
Anyway, yesterday was the rematch. we arrived at the planning meeting to find on the notes the Planning Officers reccomendation was for approval! with no change from the first meeting.
However the first case to be heard was for the erection of a comms mast. One of the Councillors was going on and on about how wrong this was.........10 mins later she coughed that her house was opposite it! Everyone laughed and jeered.
Once again, unlike a Court of law, the committee heard the objections first before the builder got up to seal his application. Well everyone laughed again, only an 80s throwback !! pointy boots and a pony tail to match that false one in Only fool and Horses!!!!
Yet again they spoke about issues that we had pictures to prove, and they refused to look at the pictures!
Time for the committee to deliberate, come on come on.........and 5-2 we won, they apposed the proposal!!!
Victory No 2!
Best cocking entertainment ive had in years!
I bet its costing him a fortune, and now appeal or back to the plans and start again!