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Comment on London apartment block that deviates from plans must be torn down, says council
merridew@feddit.uk 9 months agoWell
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.
Truck_kun@beehaw.org 9 months ago
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.
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
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.
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.
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