Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council (20 005 963)

Statement Not upheld Other 30-Mar-2021

Summary: There was no fault by the Council in a complaint that it did not take enforcement action against a breach of planning control at a neighbouring property.

East Northamptonshire Council (20 007 144)

Statement Closed after initial enquiries Planning applications 30-Mar-2021

Summary: We will not investigate this complaint about how the Council dealt with a planning application near the complainant’s home. This is because we are unlikely to find fault.

Birmingham City Council (19 001 144)

Statement Upheld Planning applications 30-Mar-2021

Summary: There is no fault in the way the Council reached decisions on two planning applications submitted by Mrs X’s neighbours. However, the Council failed to keep Mrs X informed of its investigations into her concerns that the development was not being built to plan. The Council should apologise to Mrs X and pay her a financial remedy to acknowledge the unnecessary time and trouble it caused her.

City of York Council (20 011 400)

Statement Closed after initial enquiries Enforcement 30-Mar-2021

Summary: Mrs X complained about the Council’s failure to take enforcement action against her neighbour for building an extension roof higher than the approved plans. We will not investigate this complaint. This is because there is insufficient evidence of fault which would warrant an investigation.

London Borough of Newham (20 012 820)

Statement Closed after initial enquiries Enforcement 30-Mar-2021

Summary: We cannot investigate Ms X’s complaint about the Council’s enforcement actions. Ms X used her right of appeal to the planning inspector and is required to comply with the enforcement notice.

Fylde Borough Council (20 011 731)

Statement Closed after initial enquiries Other 30-Mar-2021

Summary: We will not investigate Mr X’s complaint about the Council’s planning committee’s decision to grant planning permission for a development next to his home. There is not enough evidence of fault in the way officers recommended approval, or in the committee’s grant of the permission, to warrant our investigation. Even if it were fault by the Council in not notifying Mr X of the planning committee meeting, there is insufficient evidence that Mr X giving his objections at the meeting would have resulted in a different planning outcome. The size or standard of the new development’s accommodation is not a personal injustice to Mr X. We cannot achieve the key outcome Mr X seeks from his complaint.

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (20 012 003)

Statement Closed after initial enquiries Planning applications 30-Mar-2021

Summary: We will not investigate Mr Q’s complaint about the Council’s handling of his neighbours’ planning application for retrospective approval of a rear extension. This is because we are unlikely to find fault with the Council’s decision to approve the application. So we cannot question the merits of the decision. Nor can we achieve the outcome Mr Q wants.

St Albans City Council (20 006 753)

Statement Closed after initial enquiries Planning applications 29-Mar-2021

Summary: Mr X complains about the Council’s grant of planning permission and the enforcement of that planning permission. We will not investigate this complaint because the planning permission is out of time and there is no evidence of fault in the way the Council considered enforcement action.

Northumberland County Council (20 011 598)

Statement Closed after initial enquiries Planning applications 29-Mar-2021

Summary: Mr X complained about the Council’s approval of a planning application for development at a neighbouring school. We will not investigate this complaint. This is because there is insufficient evidence of fault which would warrant an investigation.

South Oxfordshire District Council (20 012 007)

Statement Closed after initial enquiries Other 29-Mar-2021

Summary: We will not investigate this complaint about the Council’s involvement to label the complainant’s land as open green space in a Neighbourhood Plan. We are unlikely to find fault in the Council’s actions. And we cannot achieve the outcome the complainant is seeking.