Topic: | Re:Re:Developers Say We are Delighted with High Rise | |
Posted by: | Adam Beamish | |
Date/Time: | 29/08/14 13:50:00 |
If you review a planning permission file from 30 years ago, the file will usually contain little more than afew plans and some correspondence, and the permission will be subject to 2 or 3 conditions and won't have any financial contributions attached. Skip forward 30 years and planning applications comprise volumes of documentation containing reports by a plethora of expert consultants covering every tiny element of the whole development process. That application will only have been submitted after months of preparation, usually including obtaining pre-application advice from both the Council and the GLA (which just to meet once with both bodies can cost £10k) and the cost of employing all these expert consultants, and organising public exhibitions etc. Then if planning permission is obtained, it's inevitable subject to a plethora of restrictive conditions (which Local Authorities can't get enough of, regardless of whether they are necessary or duplicate details already submitted), all of which have to be discharged, involving more expense, and also pay sizeable financial contributions (often in seven figures) to both the Council and also to the Mayor as Community Infrastructure Levy. I'm not saying that explains the cost issues, but it certainly accounts for some of it. |