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<blockquote data-quote="George from SJM Planning" data-source="post: 3631778" data-attributes="member: 16346"><p>It's more like telling the answers they SHOULD know! The GPDO is 164 pages long and has 19 parts which all have multiple sections and classes. Part 3 (Change of Use, which is the topic of this thread) alone has 20+ classes! And the GPDO only covers Permitted Development!</p><p></p><p>For Full Planning they will also need to refer to the NPPF which is another 65 pages, plus their own Local Authority policies and any other guidance from the EA etc.</p><p></p><p>I know many of my posts seem to be in sympathy of the Planning Officers but I have come into this industry from an non-policy driven occupation and I can understand how having to justify decisions based on 100's of pages of policy which is not written in plain English can be difficult and certain aspects maybe overlooked. This is why we like to state the policies in our submission as we then come across 'on a par' with them (and we can not highlight any policies we don't want to!). We have had dealings with over 20 Planning Officers in the past 12 months from nearly a dozen different LA's and I have yet to have any serious issues with any of them; we do tend to lock horns over timescales and tardyness in communication but once officer I spoke to this week has 60 open cases on his desk and he is in a department of 8 junior and 3 senior officers so if they all have an equal case load then it is no wonder I can never get hold of them!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="George from SJM Planning, post: 3631778, member: 16346"] It's more like telling the answers they SHOULD know! The GPDO is 164 pages long and has 19 parts which all have multiple sections and classes. Part 3 (Change of Use, which is the topic of this thread) alone has 20+ classes! And the GPDO only covers Permitted Development! For Full Planning they will also need to refer to the NPPF which is another 65 pages, plus their own Local Authority policies and any other guidance from the EA etc. I know many of my posts seem to be in sympathy of the Planning Officers but I have come into this industry from an non-policy driven occupation and I can understand how having to justify decisions based on 100's of pages of policy which is not written in plain English can be difficult and certain aspects maybe overlooked. This is why we like to state the policies in our submission as we then come across 'on a par' with them (and we can not highlight any policies we don't want to!). We have had dealings with over 20 Planning Officers in the past 12 months from nearly a dozen different LA's and I have yet to have any serious issues with any of them; we do tend to lock horns over timescales and tardyness in communication but once officer I spoke to this week has 60 open cases on his desk and he is in a department of 8 junior and 3 senior officers so if they all have an equal case load then it is no wonder I can never get hold of them! [/QUOTE]
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