"Peter Crosland" wrote in message
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And the statistics to prove this are where exactly?

Look at the planning inspectorate website, you have to search through
the individual cases to see which ones have been permitted, I have a
complaint going through them at the moment which is why I got interested
in how many were being passed at appeal level, do you know different?
We have had a couple of absolutely scandalous developments passed
locally which were opposed by everyone except the planning inspector and
the developers


Obviously I don't know about the individual case you refer to. However, to
substantiate your statement one has to look at it on a vaild statistical
basis i.e what percentage of appeals were successful in one period
compared
with another. The last time I looked at this locally it did not alter much
from year to year. What many people don't comprehend is that inspectors
have
to make a judgement based on planning law rather than bowing to local
opinion.

They have quotas of new housing to provide, so will steamroll all sorts
through to meet targets. If they knew their job well, they would steer the
developer to a certain type of house and development. A development that is
acceptable to most on conception. Unfortunately they don't do this. They
tend to allow the developers to submit ridiculous schemes and that take time
and effort to squash, then it all starts all over again. All avoidable if
they were professional enough and though about existing residents, who are a
nuisance as far as they are concerned.



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