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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 Oxfordshire DC (08 015 461)
There were multiple errors in the way South Oxfordshire District Council considered an application for a replacement property in an area of outstanding natural beauty.

28 July 2010

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