Council calls for change in planning process
LUCY BOLTON
21 November 2008 07:00
The chief planner at the Norfolk council at the centre of a row over a controversial mast plan has written to the government calling for a change in the planning process.
The Evening News last week called on O2 to scrap plans to build a mast in Reepham Road, Hellesdon, after it won planning consent by default due to a blunder by Broadland District Council.
Permission was granted for the mast after a letter sent to O2 by the council did not arrive quickly enough. Broadland has since changed its own procedures to ensure it could not happen again.
But Phil Kirby, the council's strategic director and chief planner, has now written to the Department of Communities and Local Government - the government office responsible - to change the law to prevent it happening at other local authorities.
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21 November 2008 07:00
The chief planner at the Norfolk council at the centre of a row over a controversial mast plan has written to the government calling for a change in the planning process.
The Evening News last week called on O2 to scrap plans to build a mast in Reepham Road, Hellesdon, after it won planning consent by default due to a blunder by Broadland District Council.
Permission was granted for the mast after a letter sent to O2 by the council did not arrive quickly enough. Broadland has since changed its own procedures to ensure it could not happen again.
But Phil Kirby, the council's strategic director and chief planner, has now written to the Department of Communities and Local Government - the government office responsible - to change the law to prevent it happening at other local authorities.
Read More...
http://tinyurl.com/6qsl8z
rudkla - 21. Nov, 08:40
