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Planning applications & HIghway management
Maladministration causing injustice
24 August 2006
Residents complained about the way the Council handled a planning application to build an affordable housing development in their village. The development was on the edge of a conservation area. The Council approved the application contrary to the advice of both its planning officers and the County Council Highways Authority that it should be refused because the access arrangements were contrary to its highway safety criteria. The Ombudsman found that the Council failed to give a reasoned decision for disregarding that advice.
The Ombudsman did not find that the planning outcome would have been different in terms of its impact on residential amenity had the faults not occurred. But he found that the residents who complained had been caused a justified sense of grievance by the Council’s actions and that they were understandably anxious about the consequences for road safety in their village.
The Ombudsman recommended that the Council should:
Date Updated: 30/01/09
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