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| bd139:
There’s a lot of corruption in planning as well. The developers are well known for throwing money at local councillors. And when they do that policy suddenly appears in favour in the planning departments. There was a hilarious backfire on this near me. One of the local rat runs goes past the road where all the rich councillors live. So they used their power to force through a highways change to block the road against public vote so they didn’t have cars going past. Two huge concrete blocks arrived and signage was erected at each end saying that it was No through roads. Within a month the concrete blocks turned into a well known fly tipping and shooting up heroin location which devalued the local houses considerably :-DD |
| coppice:
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 25, 2022, 10:06:43 am ---There’s a lot of corruption in planning as well. --- End quote --- Its hard to see how it could be otherwise. Parts of the UK planning system are objective. For example, there are geometric rules about the ability of your new structure to block natural light to your neighbours windows. You can nit pick over fine details there, but the rules are pretty solid. The rest is subjective, and anything subjective is wide open to corruption. |
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