Planning officer here, and it’s quite funny that people are happy to slag off planning officers and the planning system, and quite rightly to a point, but when someone wants to build something monstrous next door to them or their dear old gran, it’s suddenly not such a bad thing…
And as for this stupid new rule governing the size of permissible extensions, this is utter utter madness. This Tories have always hated the planning system and will do all they can to dismantle it.
Just yesterday I had to go and see an old lady whose neighbour had just put up a 10ft wooden fence which has had a devastating effect on her property and more significantly her happiness. Luckily the planning system will see that the wooden fence comes down, not if Dave and his mates had their way it wouldn’t though.