Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Getting planners to act

Say you live in a beautiful listed building. conservation area and all that. Your neighbour, equally protected, starts tearing down parts of his house and erecting monstrous carbuncles.

Your local Council, the guardian of all this protection, says,"Ho hum. We're too busy to do anything about this flagrant breach of the law."

What can you do to make them act? (My view is that a court won't allow you any leverage to make them exercise their discretion unless it's Wednesbury unreasonable - the traditional "high hurdle")

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