Is everything in this country(U.K.) up for sale?

GSM Planning decisions, like other political decisions, are the art of the law and the art of the possible.

i have attended a number of planning committee meetings and while the officials have to follow very strict guidelines in aking decisions, councillors who represent their locality and know the wider area around can bring in other factors.

A developer planned an estate in our village and divided it into two with all social housing down one end, with the most dangerous access, while the expensive houses up the other end had a better access, but one that caused traffic problems around the school. It was the councillors who sent the application back so that the estate could be re-planned with a mix of houses of different sizes intermingled and with access redesigned to protect the school. They also asked for the exteriors of the houses to be changed to match the vernaacular architecture of the village. We are not a village in stone country and stone clad houses were considered inappropriate.

There is a lot that 'unqualified' peole can add to the planning process.

We have different views and different experiences MOnica. I don’t approve of people with little or no knowledge of planning law overriding the advice of professionally qualified planning officers.