Planning applications should be decided in 8 weeks not 8 months

Our garage conversion took the council 7 months to approve. Nobody objected. Fully compliant with building regs. Seven months to say yes to a brick room.

If a standard application isnt decided in 8 weeks it should be automatically approved. Fund the planning departments properly or get out of the way.

RachelNotRachael 🗳️ Ward Councillor Fringe

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ClaireHumanRights 🏷️ 1. Concerned Citizen 7 months ago

Faster planning yes, with one significant caveat: automatic approval for applications not decided in time creates a risk that environmentally harmful developments slip through because the council was understaffed. The fix is funding planning departments properly and requiring environmental impact assessments above a certain threshold, not removing safeguards because the system's too slow to apply them.

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