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As a local Councillor sitting on Planning in Kensington and Chelsea I can see some good ideas here and some quite appalling.
If officers - who are paid for their work - are in charge of decision-making, where is the accountability? Councillors - who are elected and get (mostly) a small allowance - are in the front line and have to account for their actions. If all the housing projects over 250 units were agreed by officers, we Councillors would have to sit and watch, and deal with the consequences, of endless super-prime housing schemes built and nothing whatever for local people.
These decisions ARE political, but often small 'p' not party political, nb the decision of Planning Committee to refuse the development of Sutton Estate in Chelsea, which was almost unanimous.
Cllr Emma Dent Coad

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