18th February 2005, 12:13 PM
So Alfie, are you saying that you do not have the support of your planning officer colleagues, and/or the planning committee? In other words, the officer dealing with a particluar planning application over-rules your recommendation that a condition has not been discharged?
Frankly I would not be in the least surprised. A lot of "minor" conditions get ignored - for example an applicant is invariably required to submit a scheme for landscaping - you know, the green growy bits - on a development, before work commences, and is supposed to implement the aproved scheme in the first growing season.
I think I have yet to see an actual planting layout that resembling the approved scheme, supposing that such a proposal was bothered with.
Again, planning departments are gemnerally under-resourced, and few authorities employ specialist enforcement officer(s). I fear that we (heritage, archaeology, call it what you will) are at the back of long queue and seen as a bit of a nuisance.
Somehow we have to become a lot of a nuisance!
Frankly I would not be in the least surprised. A lot of "minor" conditions get ignored - for example an applicant is invariably required to submit a scheme for landscaping - you know, the green growy bits - on a development, before work commences, and is supposed to implement the aproved scheme in the first growing season.
I think I have yet to see an actual planting layout that resembling the approved scheme, supposing that such a proposal was bothered with.
Again, planning departments are gemnerally under-resourced, and few authorities employ specialist enforcement officer(s). I fear that we (heritage, archaeology, call it what you will) are at the back of long queue and seen as a bit of a nuisance.
Somehow we have to become a lot of a nuisance!