How to object to planning permission?

AdrianC

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Have you read anything that's been posted on this thread?

Clearly they've not even looked at the dates on the various applications.

SallyG

If you don't want to be out of the loop for the next one - there's always another one - developers can't stop - find the "Public Access" bit of your local council's website under planning - that's where the planning applications are listed - type your local area into search - and you'll find them ; if you register you can comment - object/support/neutral - online - it's pretty easy to do but be aware your comments will be published for all to read online.
Find your local council's "Core Strategy" Local Development Framework/Local Plan on the same website and if you find valid reasons to oppose based on your local council's own stated policies make your comments accordingly.
Locally our strategy is to always object because there is always harm, the developers have money and power and we found not objecting doesn't make them grateful and altruistic.

lincroft1710

Brand_X wrote: »

I have redacted the names, but I'm not naive about how business deals are done.

You should delete the whole sentence, the planning officers may still be identifiable.

KRB2725

Brand_X wrote: »

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.

You certainly seem naive about how planning permission works.

Do you not realise, even after reading this thread, that the permission for the 120 houses was granted BEFORE the permission for the 2 you are referring to? They weren't a decoy, they were an afterthought - presumably because an extra bit of land was acquired.

AdrianC

emmatthews wrote: »

Do you not realise, even after reading this thread, that the permission for the 120 houses was granted BEFORE the permission for the 2 you are referring to? They weren't a decoy, they were an afterthought - presumably because an extra bit of land was acquired.

Some decoy...

Application 08/12/00143 (120 houses) - received 16th Aug 2012, comments closed 16th Oct 2012, granted 24th Dec 2013.
Application 08/13/00213 (2 houses) - received 3rd Dec 2013, comments closed 2nd Jan 2013, granted 30th Jan 2014.

So the two house proposal wasn't even received by the council until fourteen MONTHS after the 120 home proposal was, and only three weeks before the 120 home proposal was granted. The two home proposal was still open to comments at that point, and wasn't granted until over a month after the 120 home proposal was.

This really is some conspiracy that's being brewed to avoid admitting a fairly simple and easy-to-make mistake.

As far as the two companies go, when I listed them, I explicitly said they share directors, so quite how this is also some apparent shady conspiracy, I'm not sure. This is all public information.