Property Development Project - Day 132

When I pick up my post on Monday morning I notice a fairly thick envelope from the Council. On opening it I find a blue printed decision notice from the Planning Department.


It is a refusal of planning permission.

I told you that you wouldn’t have to wait long for the result of my most recent mistake and here you are. I thought that by opening the discussion with the Conservation Officer and sending alternative plans that I was ‘negotiating’ and therefore they would not refuse the application.

I should have realised that the pressure to ensure as many applications as possible are dealt with inside 8 weeks would not be overridden unless I made a specific request to delay the decision to await the outcome of my negotiations with the Conservation Officer.

Still I was angry and I think with some reason, the planning officer could have told me when we spoke that he was going to issue the refusal notice before my meeting with the Conservation Officer when we spoke last Monday, but that would have meant being helpful and informative.

The refusal notice in fact repeated almost word for word the internal memorandum that the Conservation Officer issued earlier.

My meeting with the Conservation Officer is tomorrow so I may as well ignore this notice at the moment and see how I get on.


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