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To: Government
inequality in planning rules
Bring equality to the process of approval of planning applications.
Why is this important?
When an application for planning permission is refused by the local planning authority, an appeal can be made to the Secretary of State against the decision. However if planning permission is granted either by the local authority or by the Secretary of State (who has no local knowledge) there is no right of appeal. This blatant inequality needs to be removed.
In our area there have been totally inappropriate speculative housing developments, granted to a big national builder, when the company appealed to the Secretary of state, after the local planning department deemed the development unsustainable. Currently a planning application for a large housing estate on the field similar to the one shown is going to appeal
All we are asking is the same right of appeal for local people as is already given to developers, against a a planning decision with which they are not happy.
