| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Failure to Display Public Notice on Planning Application | |
| Posted by: | Victor Mishiku | |
| Date/Time: | 16/05/21 14:05:00 |
| Before the Yellow Notices system, individual Notification Letters would be sent out by the Planning Department to neighbouring properties back and front or opposite where sensible giving 21 days in which to make comments to the Planning Department. Cases frequently take more than a month or more to be dealt with especially if there are defects in the Plans or the Ownership Certificates (rendering the application voidable) - the latter usually arising when an applicant (or by their agent) falsely claims to own all of the land to which the application relates. Residents can continue to submit comments by e-mail or letter after the 21 days has elapsed. In one of our cases to save the "Haven Stables" (1877) from being demolished and redeveloped as a huge 4-Storey Block of Flats, we were submitting objections and Petition sheets long after the 21-day period since the application took many months to be considered. It was finally sent to Committee fully recommended for granting by the Planning Department - however it was refused by the Planning Committee and a subsequent Appeal to The Planning Inspectorate was also dismissed. I recall cases in Creswick Road/Pierrepoint Road, Gibbon Road all in Acton where next door neighbours did not know about applications as the Yellow Notice had either never been put up or otherwise taken down (in one case taken down twice!). In Studland Road in Hanwell, when attending a Committee Site Visit, a resident from just down the road came up to me and told me that there was another development being proposed next to his house and he only found out about this by chance when a neighbour from another street informed him about it. In Mount Park Crescent (a Conservation Area), a resident told me that Public Notices were twice taken down within one day of their being put up. In the Rotherwick Hill case at No.9 where the most affected neighbour was in a house in Ashbourne Close that backs onto No.9, it was important that a Notice be put up in the latter road because by not responding to the usual 21-day Notice (if it had been put up), the neighbour was debarring herself from responding to the Householder Appeal process to PINS. Fortunately, as mentioned in my original posting, PINS departed from their very strict rules because of the circumstances in this instance and the neighbour was not only able to make her objection but also received a Site Visit from the Planning Inspector (as can be seen from the Decision Letter of 13th May 2021). Two very detailed letters to the Chief Planning Officer informing him about the failure to put up a Yellow Notice were sent to him in February and March this year - the neighbour concerned still awaits a reply. V. Mishiku "The Covenant Movement" 16/5/2021 |