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Why such surprise over yet another 'new' example of the joke that has been 'planning control' for as long as I've been in private practice..50 YEARS [40 years on my own a/c]!! Have been fighting it all that time, mostly alone because most won't put their heads above the parapet, so the system bumbles on. There has been only ONE decent government edict on planning in all those years that was Heseltines PPG22/80 that essentially said that members + officers should not pass on their own likes/dislikes + prejudices as 'policy'!! This stopped the zombies in their tracks....for five minutes, they've taken all that back plus some, including getting rid of the little bit of democracy that crept in by making it possible to speak for a massive 3 minutes at committee...now well over 90% of applications never get to committee. So the 'planning clones' march on, 'clones' because they are taught + are preaching the same blind one dimensional crap they have been preaching on design since planning control came into being!
So why don't WE do something about it??????? I've tried ministers, mp's etc etc + the BD > result 'zero'??
End of yet another waste of time 'planning' rant!

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