Planning permission district officer to attend & investigate- can we speak to them ?

Karen_taris

Planning permission district officer to attend & investigate- can we speak to them ?

(Similar to my other questions)

A planning application has been made by neighbours and letters sent out to see if any one objects.

it is for a house in a garden which will be near ours.

Objections would be it would overshadow and block light coming into our property and also traffic concerns.
Along with the letters of objection a few neighbours can submit

there is also a planning committee meeting where you can speak.

This is for objectors, the applicant and planning offers to attend.


The objectors speak their objections in 3 minutes and get possible questions. There is then a show of hands
and then they then approve or deny the application.

Checking the progress of this application, there has been a new comment which states an investigator will  investigate.

Here is the wording

"the committee request that a District Council planning officer attend to investigate all of the objectors issues"



Here are our questions, can you please answer as many as you can. Thanks xx


a) Does this most definitely mean a council member will come out in person to look at the proposed land and look to see the concerns of the objectors?


b) What times would they usually come? mon-friday  8-5pm?

c) If we (the objectors) see they are outside are we allowed to speak to them ? to mention our objection concerns?

d) If so what kind of things can we say to them? - can we amplify our objection concerns? by voicing them?

e) Can we show them photo graphs ?

f) will these investigators photographs?

g) Will they write a report of their findings, and if so will we the objectors be  able to see it?



can you please answer as many of the concerns you can,

and please answer in a) b) c) d) e)  f) g) format so can be followed clearly.

Thank you xx

daveyjp

It reads to me that the planning officer has been asked to attend the Committee meeting to respond to the objections.  They don't always have to.

The officer will usually already have visited site to prepare the Committee report and present at the committee.

Planning committes are meetings held in public, but they are not a public meeting.  As you state objectors get a set time to speak, as do the applicant and any supporters.  Objectors can prepare a report with photos and offer these to the Committee to provide context to the objections.

During a Committee meeting Councillors can, if they feel an application is contentious, request to visit the site and the planning officer will accompany them.  This is still the planning committe meeting and due to the meeting in public, not a public meeting rule objectors cannot discuss the application with Councillors or the planning officer at the site visit.

Lorian

Ask them if the office is yet to visit the site and ask if you can meet them to air your concerns. doesn't mean you will be granted this but if you don't ask you don't get.

I've been to many site visits as an objector over the years, but typically on bigger schemes than this. You might not be allowed on to the site as its private property.

might be best to merge these threads.