[Stones] New houses for Avebury?

[Ric]

as a WHS, any planning permission ought to go
'worldwide' - or what's the point? Not satisfied with
wrecking what's left of the Green Belt, they're now
going to start building on top of our heritage sites:
nothing is sacred now - they even demolish churches to
make way for used car lots round where i live?

someone told me a long time ago - 'money is the new
absolutism'

R

--- Andy Norfolk <andy.norfolk at connectfree.co.uk>
wrote:

> I'm not a lawyer, but I am involved in a lot of
> planning related work in 
> my day job. Bluntly there is no way to challenge a
> planning permission 
> once it has been given. Well that's not quite true,
> a judicial review of 
> the process could be mounted if there were any signs
> that the set 
> process had not been followed. Judicial reviews are
> hideously expensive.
> 
> Planning applications must be made public and
> advertised at the site for 
> a set period in advance. The scheme details would
> have been available on 
> line and there would have been at least a few weeks
> in which to comment. 
> If the details were not advertised publicly  or the
> notices were there 
> for too short a period that might be a place to
> start. However I'd be 
> very surprised if the usual rules weren't followed.
> 
> You could just possibly persuade central government
> ot call the decision 
> in even at this late stage, but it would have to be
> on the basis that 
> national, regional and local planning policies were
> not followed.
> 
> This is difficult to do. Just think about how much
> more difficult it 
> will be to challenge planning applications under the
> new streamlined 
> process that the government is proposing.
> 
> Andy N


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