advice needed re Planning department policy

Email your local Councillor and MP.

I thought that planning applications had to be published in the local newspaper and anyone who might be directly affected, like you, should be asked and your views/objections taken into consideration.

Council Planning Committees do seem to make very strange decisions sometimes.

Our local council still notifies neighbours of planning applications.

They do make questionable decisions about relevant neighbours.

Having just looked online, local residents should be consulted.

However, occasionally we go to a village not far away, it was surrounded by fields but now huge warehouses have been put up nearly on their doorstep.

Apparently permission was granted 75 years ago for this monstrosity.
Yet someone we know has been told that the planning permission they had for a small building has run out after five years. Planners seem to be really awkward with individuals wanting to build an extension, erect a fence but make arbitrary decisions where big business or huge new estates are concerned.

It makes you wonder if 🤝£££ might sometimes be involved.

Our local council only notify you if you live immediately next door. They have authorised the house near me to be demolished with those living on the road below not knowing so not objecting but now unhappy about it but too late.

I was reading that they wanted Padel courts in Bath but the Planning Department turned it down because the noise would be too excessive for those living close by.

Thank you for your replies. Yes Allira I do think money is involved. I have also discovered that those responsible for building the courts have registered themselves as a charity in order to get commuted sums (money) from the council in spite of being a private, fee paying club. I have contacted local councillor who more or less said "hard luck" and I will try my MP next. I believe there may be a planning ombudsman, but it is all so stressful and time consuming.