| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Non w4 residents get Strand permits fiasco | |
| Posted by: | Adam Beamish | |
| Date/Time: | 11/02/19 23:50:00 |
| It does never cease to surprise me how some people don't seem particularly thorough when researching things before moving in to a new place, but at the same time it is something of a farce. Generally speaking I find Councils are very quick to impose restrictions preventing future occupiers of new units from applying for parking permits, without properly establishing whether such a blanket ban is necessary or not. Indeed there are cases where such restrictions as part of a legal agreement which forms part of a planning permission have ended up in the High Court where it has been ruled that such blanket bans are unreasonable, and that a Council should be able to make an informed judgement based upon the circumstances at the time an occupier requests a permit. Only afew years back I acted on behalf of a client in Ealing where we secured permission for a former industrial unit to be converted into flats, and during the determination of that application the Council/its transport department wouldn't budge from imposing a condition restricting any future occupiers from applying for a parking permit. So we 'bagged' the planning permission with that condition imposed, applied to remove it which LBE quickly refused, and then we went to appeal armed with full parking surveys etc. demonstrating that there was no justification to prevent future occupiers from applying for permits. LBE barely put up any resistance and the planning appeal was allowed, but the whole process took the best part of a year and was solely down to the intransigence of the Council. |