Amazing video. I love the tip on getting external alterations done first! Question about the part about transport impact.... My council are big on refusing planning permission because of lack of parking on the street. Is this the sort of thing they can reject a class MA PD application on? You and David make a great team. Please invite him again!
Great information, i have a situation with my property which is 80% residential and 20% commercial, i have applied for residential and i was refused so i appealed and i lost the appeal. The council said to put it back on the market for 12 months as a commercial and if it does not sell i can then apply for planning again. Then PDR came into force so i applied, the planning officer called me to say that i had put a room (old shop store room)in as a bedroom and it had no window so he suggested i call it something else so i called it a games room and they still refused due to not enough adequate light. You can not win if they do not want you to get the planning, if i can get it to residential it will sell so i now have to put my life on hold as trying to sell a commercial property is hard work. Has any one got any ideas? Thanks.
Can you sue a local authority and its officers personally for failing to apply the law correctly and/or for misconduct in public office (I guess the latter is a criminal offence) ? ALSO with regard to misapplication of law and misconduct (but not for the decision per se) is there any mileage in making a complaint to the relevant councils ombudsman (I know councils don't like that) ? AND if appeals against rejections are made and won, could developers sue a local authority to recover their costs with regard to fighting the appeal and other costs incurred in delaying the project ? I guess for this to work, the plans appealed and approved must stay 100% exactly as submitted. IF enough developers did any or all of the above and it might only take the threat to take the said actions; imagine what he reaction would be if a local planning authority received a couple of dozen such threats in the same week.
