On a positive side, following the worry expressed here a week or so ago on the XBB variant: The share of it in the community appears to have levelled out already. (Thanks to Oliver Johnson for the gr… (View Post)

When councils try to impose conditions and criteria such as the provision of infrastructure at certain points in development (eg “before the twentieth house is occupied, x must be provided, before th… (View Post)

Yup. Any demolition work on a building already in place. Digging a trench. Any operation that is construed as laying out or constructing part of a road. … any of that constitutes a meaningful start u… (View Post)

One application in my ward (for 28 homes): pushed through on appeal due to lack of 5-year land supply in 2016. One trench dug so far. Only action has been to apply to remove conditions placed on it (… (View Post)

Plus, of course, Local Authorities are so strapped for cash that they have only a small handful of Planning Enforcement Officers. And making enforcement cases against developers who haven't fulfilled… (View Post)