Interesting times

[Bundle 2]

Planning Portal - Localism Bill extends Community Right to Build across England

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

more developments, = more arboricultural implications surveys, BS surveys, more tree works, more work! whoopeee for all!

 

Now, lets all get out there make a mint and get out of blighty and live off the proceeds whilst the sardines live shoulder to shoulder!

 

mmmm where will i go to retire? the old growth of Calafornia? the taiga? black forest? AMAZON!

[evergreen]

mmmm where will i go to retire? the old growth of Calafornia? the taiga? black forest? AMAZON!

Why do you want to live in an online book store?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

mmmm where will i go to retire? the old growth of Calafornia? the taiga? black forest? AMAZON!

Why do you want to live in an online book store?

 

I will re phrase!

 

The Amazon basin!

[evergreen]

Just joshing. Cant think of a better place to kick back.

[Bundle 2]

Its all good and well for the current coalition govt totake this approach. It may well work.

This idea of handing the power to the littlepeople may make more sense from a planning standpoint?

Just cos I's a cynnical ol' git though....since when did governments start handing self determining powers to the electorate? And who., might I ask. is going to pay for all this development cos it sure as 'ell aint the govt.....? I reckon they want something for nothing me!

The flip side to this is the obvious "austerity" we have seen discussed and debated in this very forum with some sentiments clearly expressing strong feelings from time to time!

Less money around and more charges...not just professionals ( and I might add, I would not be surprised to see arbs bottom if not out for fiscal reasons)- Councils are currently consulting as to the nature, if any, of proposed tariffs for planning apps etc...

I think we may see ecologists and landscape architects doing AIA/EIA's and BS5837....(or worse still, a complete failure to adequately monitor building developments....)

I sincerely hope not...but this bottom up, top down bollox is political posturing and serves the semantic whip long before it has any real substance..

New politics my arse.......I wont go on!

[Bundle 2]

Planning Portal - Cautious welcome for Localism Bill but questions on detail

[Quickthorn]

This idea of handing the power to the littlepeople may make more sense from a planning standpoint?

 

Power might be handed to the little people initially, but it will end up in the hands of that cabal of local business people - estate agents, solicitors, land agents, developers, big farmers, land owners and anyone else who plays golf with them - who end up pulling all the strings in an area. It sounds it's heading towards a cronies' charter to me.

 

Of course, it won't fly at the moment if this referendum idea is part of it, because people who have their houses already don't particularly want to see anyone else building houses near them (unless they're going to make money, like in "garden grabbing"). However, they're watering that bit down by the looks of it. It started off as "an overwhelming majority" in favour, now it's "more than half". I'm sure they'll get the "right balance" eventually.

[Bundle 2]

There is until tomorrow (mon 20 dec) to respond to the proposed streamlining of TPO's.....

I have attached the link for the conssultation proposal of fees in relation to planning.

Consultation paper:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/planningandbuilding/pdf/1769286.pdf

Report on fees:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/planningandbuilding/pdf/1769333.pdf

 

And for those of you with nowt better to do on a sunday.....I attach the coalition agreement......Bearing in mind, if the Localism bill becomes law, all PPG's and PPS's are nullified...as are all "Regional Strategies" in favor of one "National Development Framework".

One has to wonder just how trees will be represented within any of the text......?

agreement.pdf

[log_hauler]

Power might be handed to the little people initially, but it will end up in the hands of that cabal of local business people - estate agents, solicitors, land agents, developers, big farmers, land owners and anyone else who plays golf with them - who end up pulling all the strings in an area. It sounds it's heading towards a cronies' charter to me.

 

 

Never a truer word said. Got to be ripe for abuse by greedy developers this one.