Planning permission : lack of publicity but approved anyways.

ReadingTim

lemonizer said:

I'm not trying to get rid of the planning permission, as I said before the developer is doing a much better job than any of the local community ever has.

I'm just trying work out the madness of the planning system. Which I think is probably impossible as no-one, even the planners, knows what to do other than produce 1000s of pages of work that say nothing.

There is no madness....  there is a system in place with procedures that were followed, and are generally robust enough to accommodate most situations, including freak weather incidents such as the one you refer to.  However, no system can cover every eventuality, which is why things like insurance policies exclude freak weather events and other 'acts of god', wars etc.  

I don't know what your point is, was, or might have been, but the only one who seems to be suffering from any madness is yourself.  Please, spend your time and energies elsewhere - maybe some volunteering at a homeless charity this Christmas perhaps.  

Section62

lemonizer said:

I'm not trying to get rid of the planning permission, as I said before the developer is doing a much better job than any of the local community ever has.

What you described earlier - i.e. digging up a flower bed - won't cancel or overturn the planning consent.

The developer just has to comply with any conditions imposed by the consent, or face the possibility of enforcement action to make them comply.

lemonizer

Section62 said:

lemonizer said:

I'm not trying to get rid of the planning permission, as I said before the developer is doing a much better job than any of the local community ever has.

What you described earlier - i.e. digging up a flower bed - won't cancel or overturn the planning consent.

The developer just has to comply with any conditions imposed by the consent, or face the possibility of enforcement action to make them comply.

That's the point, it was nothing to do with planning. They dug it up as they gave their construction company plans that differed from planning permission. So the LPA gave them retrospective planning permission outside of the "red line boundry".

fourmarks

I too have a question.

This is your 7th discussion thread in which you are seeking advice for the various trials and tribulations that life has unfairly thrown at you. In none of the previous 6 threads have you bothered to give the end result. Now I appreciate that the generous folk who offer you help and advice are unlikely to be fretting over your lack of response, but why should they bother to assist, either now, or in the future?

Just asking.

lemonizer

fourmarks said:

I too have a question.

This is your 7th discussion thread in which you are seeking advice for the various trials and tribulations that life has unfairly thrown at you. In none of the previous 6 threads have you bothered to give the end result. Now I appreciate that the generous folk who offer you help and advice are unlikely to be fretting over your lack of response, but why should they bother to assist, either now, or in the future?

Just asking.

I don't like having the !!!!!! taken out of me.

housebuyer143

lemonizer said:

fourmarks said:

I too have a question.

This is your 7th discussion thread in which you are seeking advice for the various trials and tribulations that life has unfairly thrown at you. In none of the previous 6 threads have you bothered to give the end result. Now I appreciate that the generous folk who offer you help and advice are unlikely to be fretting over your lack of response, but why should they bother to assist, either now, or in the future?

Just asking.

I don't like having the !!!!!! taken out of me.

Or you just find reason to be annoyed about anything? You would be a happier person if you didn't think people were out to get you.

lemonizer

Ermmm, 7 posts in 7 years.

I'm not sure that is "I feel someone is out to get me". If you don't get annoyed once a year, seek some help, that isn't natural.

TripleH

Bottom line, you could complain procedure wasn't followed and follow it through to its natural conclusion including via Ombudsman.

I suspect likely worse outcome is a ruler across the knuckles and a request for a system process to be put in place for future applications.

The big question is proving it wasn't available in some format for the designated period for access by the public at large. Hard to prove either way if paper copies were available for viewing but with a lot of information being online these days just by putting it there may well cover basis.

Unless you got a planning application issued once in a green moon, it becomes harder to say it was published on line but not so anyone could see.

Cedartree123

You have been given a pretty good overview of the situation earlier on in this thread. If you really want to know the process, have a look at your Council’s Statement of Community Involvement (SCI). This sets out how and when they will consult with people on planning applications and plans.

You are about 4 years too late to take any meaningful action. You would have needed to lodge a legal challenge within 6 weeks of the planning permission. If you were within this timeframe, I’m sure some lawyer somewhere would have run with the case, but I’d imagine your chances of success would be low.

If you were to take legal action at the time you would need deep pockets - well into the 10’s of thousands of pounds. If you lose, you pay the other sides fees. Even if you were successful, all that would happen is the permission is scrapped, and the application starts through the process again, and 99/100 the scheme will be granted permission again. 

sheramber

Even if the weather had not prevented people getting the paper would they have read the application?

Would anybody have submitted a meaning full objection which would have prevented permission being given?

Is anybody else, apart from you, concerned about this?