Advice please for objecting to planning

tortoiseshellcat

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

"Inefficiency" - a frequent tactic by anything governmental - be it Councils, Civil Service Departments or whatever else.....:rotfl::rotfl:

Visions of some enormous black hole underneath the Arctic where all those "lost" papers Council/Government/etc wish they didn't have have been "safely stored":cool::cool: (at the last count some of my papers have been "safely stored" there for over 20 years - but I'd taken the precaution of having a copy of them before they "got lost" LOL).

Thanks for your reply we will object again if they don’t put it on and have definitely kept a copy...
Lol at enormous black hole underneath the arctic full of paperwork :rotfl:
And :eek: at inefficiency tactic.

tortoiseshellcat

AdrianC wrote: »

There are definite - and tight - rules on who has to be notified. But there should be site notifications posted visibly.


Who is "losing their back gardens", and how?

Thanks for your reply, there are no notifications posted anywhere. We have asked the council why they said they will “pass this query onto the relevant office and get back to us.” Not holding my breath on that one.

Sorry for being vague about the back garden thing. Three houses are losing part of their back gardens (us included) because we own about two third and the bottom third is owned by an authority and used on licence. This authority wants to sell all their assets to make as much money as they can which is why they want to sell this land for development. The planning company have put planning in for the authority to then sell the land with planning permission

davidmcn

tortoiseshellcat wrote: »

Thanks for your reply, there are no notifications posted anywhere. We have asked the council why they said they will “pass this query onto the relevant office and get back to us.” Not holding my breath on that one.

Lack of notification isn't a particularly strong ground for objection (as after all you obviously know about the application) - at most they might extend the period for representations.

System

Best of luck. Westminster have told planning departments that new housing is effectively to be rubber stamped through.

tortoiseshellcat

Thanks, no I know that we can’t use that one against them. It would have just been decent of the council to put up notices. TBH it feels like they’ve tried to sneak in the planning application with as few people knowing as possible, but we’re not as silly as they think lol...

Rcrawford

Hi,
I have recently put in a planning application, I have received 6 objections all from 1 (non Dom) landlord (my neighbour). I wondered if this duplicate objection (a copy and paste from the same individual) would count as 6 or 1 objections?
Would be very grateful for any advice. She is also threatening that I would not be allowed to use the shared drive during or after construction. (Turns our she owns the freehold of the drive, another ltd company, but in my deeds I do have shared access - vehicular and pedestrian).
Many thanks.

AdrianC

Six identical comments from one person count as one comment.

Does your right of way allow for construction traffic?

ka7e

Re Council "inefficiency", I have found my local Council has "lost" documents that have covenants regarding continued public use of land that has subsequently been sold to developers.

They have made planning decisions behind closed doors before statutory public consultations have taken place.


Advised developers to split planning applications to thwart objections - they allowed a road to be built on open public land that was obviously going to be used as an access road to open up a building site. The road was presented as being access to allotments and it was claimed this had the approval of the Allotments Association. The Association were never actually consulted and objections regarding the access for building was disallowed as the development was a separate planning matter. The piece of road extending past the development access down to the allotment site has not been built.


Estates have been built with the original plans showing all houses to have solar panels, rainwater retrieval and other green measures, only for the developers to submit multiple amendments over time that remove them all. The changes are presented in a form that you have to go back to the original planning documents to see the changes and those document are "buried" in the planning website. Queries raised at the planning stage as to how solar panels could be used on houses that have roofs with dormer/ Velux windows on them were ignored.


Ignored objections about houses being built on a water meadow which regularly flooded, resulted in a dozen houses being bought back by the developer and underpinned as they had been built over rhines that had been back-filled.


Land within a development "agreed" to be set aside for a medical centre and children's nursery ended up having houses being built on instead. The developers said it was not financially viable to sell the land to the council at the subsidised price it had previously offered.


Council objections on housing density result in changed plans for lower density that, over time, are changed back to the original numbers.

Unrestricted parking in residential areas is a "good thing" as it is used as a "traffic calming measure", even though it restricts access for emergency vehicles.

Most Councils are forced to take the route of least resistance as they don't have the funds to challenge planning applications. Central government is also on the side of developers and applies pressure for new housing without providing extra funds to improve infrastructure - schools, shops, surgeries, roads and transport.

davidmcn

Rcrawford wrote: »

I have received 6 objections all from 1 (non Dom) landlord (my neighbour). I wondered if this duplicate objection (a copy and paste from the same individual) would count as 6 or 1 objections?

The planners are going to be more interested in whether objections have any merit to them from a planning point of view than how many there are. What has she actually said in the objection?

She is also threatening that I would not be allowed to use the shared drive during or after construction. (Turns our she owns the freehold of the drive, another ltd company, but in my deeds I do have shared access - vehicular and pedestrian).

What rights you have (or not) in your titles are a completely separate matter from the planning.