Comment on London apartment block that deviates from plans must be torn down, says council

blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• merridew@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well

  only one in 10 council planning departments are fully staffed, with 13% operating with fewer than three-quarters of posts filled

  with

  80% [of local authorities] reporting they did not have enough officers to carry out their workload

  because

  long-term cuts to funding have had a visible impact on planning departments’ ability to retain staff… there has been a 43% fall in resources to the planning system from local authorities since 2009-10.

  lgcplus.com/…/planning-people-go-from-council-to-…

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  • Risk@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Honest to god. Every time the curtain is peeled back on any aspect of our country, the damage that has been done since 2010 makes me reel.

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    • peter@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t worry, come election time the media will be non stop focusing on starmer saying something questionable and the tories will be voted in again

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  • Truck_kun@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • NuPNuA@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m betting, based on how much building is going on along the Greenwich riverside, that this was approved pre-covid, then when the costs started rising afterward they thought they could cut corners to save a few bob.

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    • Hogger85b@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If they have already sold the flats then paid thr money to shell companies, then it may be home owners left short unable to claim back

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      • NuPNuA@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s a buy to rent building, they’re all owned by the Devs/investors and rented out. People will just end their tenancies.

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