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How to object to planning permission?
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They aren't building on the same land. They're building on SEPARATE PLOTS NEXT TO EACH OTHER. This is where your confusion has arisen.
I rather suspect what happened is that the owner of the house that's being replaced with two houses saw the planning application for the development on the fields behind them, said "Oh. Right. In that case..." and sold their house for development.0 -
Do you have any evidence that they took money for the decision?
Apart from anything else, the planning officers didn't decide it. It was decided by councillors at a committee meeting. As was the subsequent variation.
And there were 63 representations made in relation to the original application, so it was hardly hidden away from local residents.0 -
Apart from anything else, the planning officers didn't decide it. It was decided by councillors at a committee meeting. As was the subsequent variation.
And there were 63 representations made in relation to the original application, so it was hardly hidden away from local residents.
I dunno, these secret committees, hidden from the electorate.....
OP - you are squarely in the wrong here - if you haven't already you need to take the names of the planning officers down. You have (a) no basis for your claims and (b) you have clearly misunderstood the process you are complaining about.0 -
Indeed, the title of the application, as received in August 2012, is...
"Erection of 120 dwellings, garages, formation of access and landscaping."
Original application :-
http://www.sedgemoor.gov.uk/planning_online/(S(q3txky5bskqjoii5ayuzon43))/Details.aspx?App=08/12/00143
Minor updates :-
http://www.sedgemoor.gov.uk/planning_online/(S(q3txky5bskqjoii5ayuzon43))/Details.aspx?App=08/14/00044
The original app is clearly for 120 houses and, judging by the 63 responses from 'interested parties' most of which seem to be objections from local people, this really did not fly under the radar.
OP, it really pays to do your homework rather than fly off the handle and name and accuse people of breaking the law!Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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Even if your local authority planners had turned it down the developers would have gone to planning appeal,invested loads in planning consultants to get it through courtesy of a Planning Inspector with no local accountability and costing your local council megabucks.0
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I've seen threads pulled for a lot less than this. Don't mods work on weekends?0
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Didn't you get anything in the post? I always do.
One development close to me was given conditional permission, and money was involved. It was all on the documents: the developer must make a huge contribution to social housing, the Crossrail project... but to the council not individuals.Who having known the diamond will concern himself with glass?
Rudyard Kipling0 -
I dunno, these secret committees, hidden from the electorate.....
OP - you are squarely in the wrong here - if you haven't already you need to take the names of the planning officers down. You have (a) no basis for your claims and (b) you have clearly misunderstood the process you are complaining about.
I have redacted the names, but I'm not naive about how business deals are done, I don't believe for one minute that Summerfield Homes and Summerfield Developments just coincidentally have the same name and decided to cooperate on the same project. Same company under two different names.
You're right that I don't understand the process, but I do understand that the picture on the piece of paper zip-tied to a lamp-post showed TWO houses. Just two. The second development dwarfs the first and is classed as a Major Development but there was no piece of paper zip-tied to a lamp-post for that one.
I think the first two houses were started as a decoy so that people wouldn't notice that there was a much bigger development project afoot. And it worked.0 -
Well it would appear that at least 63 local people noticed.0
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