| Topic: | Re:Re:Re::Shepherds Bush Housing Group Defend St Margaret's House Plans | |
| Posted by: | Colin Jordan | |
| Date/Time: | 25/11/10 18:19:00 |
| Adam, first of all, thank you for your informative and non-partisan explanations of the intricacies of planning law. As a layman, I get the impression that it is an area of Byzantine complication. However, John said "Wider circulation and or consultation would have been most beneficial-for both sides and for numerous reasons" In you reply you said, “In many ways you're entirely correct, I just feel that sometimes you're damned if you do (because the majority of people who turn up do so just to have a moan and the developer gets little useful feedback out of the exercise)” I would have thought that having crowd of people turning up ‘just to have a moan‘ is one of the things developers quite rightly have to put up with because what one person sees as a moan may be an important and valid objection to the person doing the moaning. The alternative would seem to be that a developer would put forward an application and a faceless committee from the council would approve it, or not, without any reference to the members of the community who have to live with the proposed development. You also say that if the developer doesn’t consult them, “the public complain that the developer hasn't attempted to consult with them at all” Well so they should. Democracy is a messy business, but without it developers would be able to just put their profitable buildings anywhere without any consideration for the rest of us. |