sure you've thought about it but isn't this the sort of thing where a judicial review can be used - but possibly impractical because of expense?
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Another viewpoint of that Grand Designs water mill up the side of a hill
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Posted 3 years ago #
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sure you've thought about it but isn't this the sort of thing where a judicial review can be used - but possibly impractical because of expense?
indeed - and bear in mind we threatened it first time around and SODC were forced to "reconsider". If you are successful at JR - all that happens is the council are told to look a the decision again - and look what happened when we forced them to do that...
There are (with some exceptions) strict time limits for JR - and by the time we got to the 2nd planning committee meeting - bear in mind the money time and stress we had already expended. Thats what the Ombudsman is there for in part - so we'll see what he has to say, although I think it will take some time for him to conclude his investigation.
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@NeighboursInTheWoods
Well you obviously know more than we about the planning details of the house.
I don't understand why you think it's in the council's interest to allow a house that doesn't meet their planning criteria? Surely that would set a precedent in the area.
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Richlips - it sets several extremely dangerous precedents and I think the council are going to have some problems with that in the future. I can't at the moment go into the full details of their interests - but from what is available wholly in the public domain - and bearing in mind the side issue of the involvement of Grand designs - do you think they would really want the house to have to be knocked down as a result of their cockup?
I would imagine that they felt it better to deal with the immediate crisis and worry about the precedents later...
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and bearing in mind the side issue of the involvement of Grand designs - do you think they would really want the house to have to be knocked down as a result of their cockup?
In my experience albeit not in your area. If they thought a mistake had been made, even on their part, they would rectify it ie. knock the house down. I would have thought that due to GD's partaking, that they would have their senior bods give it the once over to make sure that they made the right decisions. Especially once it went to appeal.
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I wish I could say more about the nature of the "mistakes" which might help clarify things - unfortunately I cant at the moment...
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and re the above - see my earlier post about the planning officer...
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Holy Thread Resurrection!
Just thought I'd bring this back to life to see if the "Neighbours" have got anywhere. I was thinking about this the other day as I was driving past a house near us that was put up without the necessary permissions.
Very little action on their blog http://neighboursinthewoods.blogspot.com/ but if it gets hit a few times by us we may get an update.
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