Property Development Project - Day 98

The good thing about doing these posts at the end of this property development project is that I can leap forward and thus miss out the boring bits where there is nothing to do but wait while someone else is hopefully doing their thing.

So I am doing a leap to the end of the consultation period for the planning application.

Rather than simply rely on a conversation with the planning officer I visit the Local Authority offices and read through the file.

This does not take very long as there is very little in there. Copies of the application, plans and letters that I have written, copies of the memos sent out by the planning officer to the Statutory Consultees, and copies of a letter sent to neighbours of the site plus a list of them.

Then we have the replies – only one set of neighbours have been concerned enough to write in and this is from the people mentioned earlier that live right next to the proposed new house. They have objected but no grounds have been raised that will affect the application.

Of the Statutory Consultees only Highways have actually responded in the required timescale and they have no objection, just a condition they want imposed about establishing sight lines before occupation of the new house. I will have to cut down part of the existing hedge to a lower height to accomodate the condition.

This means that there has been no response from the Town Council (which doesn’t really bother me), or from the Conservation Officer (which does bother me).


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