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Complaint outcomes: Planning

This section covers complaints about:

  • planning applications
  • planning enforcement
  • forward planning, such as the adoption and amendment of local plans
  • planning advice
  • trees, such as protection or destruction of trees and hedgerows, and
  • building control

 

Recent cases in this category are shown below.

Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council (07C14968 and one other)
There were “serious flaws” in the way Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council approved a plan to demolish a listed Victorian schoolroom and build new houses on the site.

09 February 2010

Lancashire County Council (05C11620)
The combined failings of Lancashire County Council and two other public bodies allowed illegal waste activities to go unchecked over a seven-year period with devastating effect.

21 January 2010

Rossendale Borough Council (05C09690)
The combined failings of Rossendale Borough Council and two other public bodies allowed illegal waste activities to go unchecked over a seven-year period with devastating effect.

21 January 2010

Medway Council (08 014 449 and six others)
There were flaws in the way the Council granted permission for an all-weather school sports pitch.

10 August 2009

Herefordshire Council (08 004 420)
There were significant flaws in the way the Council granted permission for a new house next to a listed building.

06 August 2009