On 2006-11-09 12:10:24 +0000, Adrian said:

Andy Hall ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying :

This is simply untrue. What it means is that if you wish to prune or
fell the tree then you have to get permission and this is subject to
appropriate consideration rather than your whim! The application has to
be published and considered by the council and their officers. That
decision has the right of appeal just like a planning application does.

Good grief. What a lot of crap to deal with.

In practical terms, Tony's idea is the right one, so as not to have to
deal with a bunch of petty bureaucrats.

You don't *have* to. That's the wonderfully simple thing about it.

If you don't *want* to deal with Conservation Area restrictions, it's
very simple to not have to. Don't live in one. See, that easy?

If you're living in a house, and that house becomes part of a CA, then
- again, it's simple. Sell it. After all, the conservation area status
will have increased it's value! Winners all round!

Why in your wildest dreams would you imagine that anyone would want to
have to deal with that nonsense?

So let's just tarmac over the entire country with complete impunity.
Anything goes! MegaTesco on the top of Snowdon or in the middle of a
SSSI? Feel free, if you think you can make it turn a profit! After all,
you can build it as shoddily and cheaply as you like...

Anybody else remember Peter UnSavory and the complete dog's breakfast
that is now Land's End?

You missed my point.

That was not about the merits or demerits of Conservation Areas but
about the behaviour of people who would seek to snitch on their
neightbours to petty bureaucrats.

The second point was the involvement of said bureaucracy in the whole
area of conservation. If the legislation said that they *must* and
*must always* behave in a certain way and follow a certain procedure
regardless of the circumstances then that is perhaps fair enough.
However, when the state of affairs is that it is an enabling
legislation so that they *may* take action if they wish then the
situation is arbitrary and unsatisfactory.

It should be consistent. Moreover, this whole area seems to attract
the pocket busybodies with too much time on their hands who seem to get
off on imposing their will on others. Generally these are people of
short height and short length as well.