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richardgarforth 3 Star User
Joined: 27 Jul 2008 Posts: 16
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:35 pm Post subject: Planning Applications and consultaions with Parish council. |
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Hi,
Anyone feel that their Parish council is not listened to when the Planning authority passes plans? Do you feel you are not really listened to, or sidelined with your views.
We have a Huge warehouse development that is twice the size of our village with 24 hour operation. We already have massive amounts of empty warehouses , recently built too. We feel that we were not listened to even though over 300 objections (from 1200 houses) were written to the council.
Anyone else in the same boat? This might be a good place to discuss tactics?
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Mike Goss 3 Star User
Joined: 08 Dec 2009 Posts: 15
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Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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One trick for getting District Council Planners to listen is to couch the comments in terms of their own planning policies.
They can, and do, ignore general comments, but point out that one aspect of the application is contrary to Planning Policy xxx and they will have to either agree of find good reason why you are wrong.
You have to speak their language. |
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richardgarforth 3 Star User
Joined: 27 Jul 2008 Posts: 16
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Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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Mike Goss wrote: |
You have to speak their language. |
i agree, our local paper ran an article after I spoke out at a planning meeting that no one had ever quoted planning law back at a planner before. We still lost though. The commitee decided to rule against us. "because Barnsley needs jobs"
Sometime later when greedy developer wanted to alter plans, they refused the same, because it was against planning law to speculatively build warehouse units (The very plannning law I quoted to them in previous meeting!
You just cannot win. I am hoping that the next government will strengthen the powers of Parish councils. Whats the point of being a statutaory notifyee if your comments and objections are just ignored, even if you are bang on the button with the planning laws! |
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