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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.

South Holland DC (08 010 396)
The Council took enforcement action against a housing developer contrary to legal advice and national planning policy guidance.

31 October 2011

West Dorset DC (09 000 635 & 09 012 752)
The Council failed to spot gross error in plans for a replacement beach chalet at West Bexington.

11 October 2011

East Staffordshire BC (09 000 881 & 3 others)
The Council failed to robustly defend an appeal against its refusal of a planning application.

23 May 2011

Melton BC (09 002 577)
The Council’s decision to grant permission for a bungalow due to the personal circumstances of the applicant was “flawed”.

04 May 2011

Warrington BC (09 014 399 & 1 other)
The Council wrongly destroyed records that formed part of the statutory planning register, so that it had no records of plans and applications approved before 1996.

14 April 2011