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Many of the landowners in and around Bleadon (like many landowners across the country) want to realise their lands potential into £'s profits. Well what else is new! This is currently the Bleadon Village Fence that people are not supposed to build outside of or develop on.
If you are concerened about buildings being built near you then here are some things to watch out for:
- Has the landowner applied for 'Outline Planning Permission? Outline Planning Permission (OPP) gives an indication of permitted development and is usually what the landowner will do first to 'test' the waters so to speak. Building plots for sale can be purchased with outline planning permission
Detailed Planning Permission (DPP) must be submitted within three years of outline planning permission. Detailed designs should be submitted in order to gain approval to build
Full Planning Permission (FPP)
Full planning permission is a combination of outline planning consent and detailed planning consent - with all detailed information submitted in a single application. Full Planning Permission is common where the proposed development is contentious.
- Over and over again politicians are telling local communities not to be to concerned about applications for outline permission as these are no more than the principle to develop, but they should hold off until the full application is put forward. This is totally wrong. If local communities accept this advice it is fatal, effectively preventing them from making representation, as there is no right of comment at the full permission stage.
The Local Planning Authority on receiving the application will put it on public display, erect site notices, and inform local residents effected, and will also for some developments place an advert in the local paper, the public then have 21 days from the date of the notice (14 days from date of notice in paper) to make objection, this very short time scale is the biggest obstacle to meaningful public involvement in adverse planning application's, as quite often by the time the public become aware, get together with others, form a committee and lodge objections they are out of time, albeit that most local authorities will allow late objections to be made. So it is very important to move quickly, put in basic objections, and then beef this up after more research. The regulations on publicity for planning applications is contained in the DETR Circular 15/92
When making objections you must ensure that you base your arguments on "material planning considerations". It is very simple to say 'hey I don't want that here', its another thing to say 'hey I don't want that here, it breaks the planning rules because ...........', therefore as a campaign we must ensure we are saying the right things to the right people, in this way we will win through
This page and the associated site is a great resource for people who are concerned about building issues: Planning Sanity
Other useful sites include:
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