Planning Applications, PD and the like (General Chat)

[George from SJM Planning]

I wonder if that just the Great Crested newts... or are all newts protected...? Dx

Just GCN I believe

 

[Dookist]

Try Arbtech

Thanks... still waiting for them to get back... others are saying they can't do anything for several weeks... which will take us into the colder weather when most of the protected species on site will be hibernating. I don't want to pay a grand for a report which is innaccurate. I should have done this back in May. I honestly didn't expect to be asked for an eco report just for the retention of an existing building and where no development is proposed. Dx

 

[Steevo]

I think with 300,000 houses needed every year, we are definitely going to see more houses being built in the countryside. My area has no available building land at all and develoment is being carried out on greenbelt farmland, much of which is in a flood zone... It's not ideal. In a small country, we should be trying to keep as much farmland as possible to feed ourselves. Yet LPAs make it very difficult for people who have brownfield sites ... It makes no sense at all...

Or we should be asking WHY we seem to need to many houses….and perhaps address that.

 

[George from SJM Planning]

Or we should be asking WHY we seem to need to many houses….and perhaps address that.

Maybe if people didn't have second homes then that would be a start. A very sensitive subject locally and one that is stopping me moving up the housing ladder and free up the affordable stock that I'm currently living in.

 

[TheTallGuy]

Maybe if people didn't have second homes then that would be a start. A very sensitive subject locally and one that is stopping me moving up the housing ladder and free up the affordable stock that I'm currently living in.

Unfortunately the sort of people who can afford second homes can usually afford to find a way to get around rules

 

[George from SJM Planning]

Unfortunately the sort of people who can afford second homes can usually afford to find a way to get around rules

It was amazing how easy it was for all of them to suddenly become businesses when the COVID grants were handed out too.


Sorry ... posting personal feelings rather than SJM views

 

[Dookist]

Or we should be asking WHY we seem to need to many houses….and perhaps address that.

Maybe we are overpopulated... but all those houses and no infastructure won't work. We need the hospitals, roads and schools as well...

 

[Lazy Sod]

Maybe we are overpopulated

No maybe about if, we are. We have been for decades, but the wokists would never admit it.

 

[tullah]

Does someone know why it's all the rage to protect disease ridden bats.
Think of the poor churchgoers

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

Does someone know why it's all the rage to protect disease ridden bats.
Think of the poor churchgoers

Personally I'd rather see bats protected than badgers.....

 

[Werzle]

I think with 300,000 houses needed every year, we are definitely going to see more houses being built in the countryside. My area has no available building land at all and develoment is being carried out on greenbelt farmland, much of which is in a flood zone... It's not ideal. In a small country, we should be trying to keep as much farmland as possible to feed ourselves. Yet LPAs make it very difficult for people who have brownfield sites ... It makes no sense at all...

Loads of houses sat empty, loads of old factory sites/waste ground doing nothing . Roads already cannot cope with the traffic without adding thousands of more cars etc etc. Small villages spoilt with massive development sites and everybody building in their gardens. 3-4 house little developments sat in 3-4acres i agree with but its getting out of hand.

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

Loads of houses sat empty, loads of old factory sites/waste ground doing nothing . Roads already cannot cope with the traffic without adding thousands of more cars etc etc. Small villages spoilt with massive development sites and everybody building in their gardens. 3-4 house little developments sat in 3-4acres i agree with but its getting out of hand.

Yet, in Harlow, they've converted Terminus House, a 70's office tower, into abysmal flats under pd which aren't fit for anyone to live in......

 

[steveR]

Newts can be more difficult as you need to protect the development site so they don't encroach, you need to relocate any within the development boundary before work starts, they may even insist on a watching brief during the works.

Sprog One works for a big Civils company and what they really REALLY hate are bloody newts. They were doing the design and overseeing of a big roads project, and a "newt" was found in the site... allegedly. That "newt" cost the build nearly £1M in delays, costs etc etc.

 

[Steevo]

Sprog One works for a big Civils company and what they really REALLY hate are bloody newts. They were doing the design and overseeing of a big roads project, and a "newt" was found in the site... allegedly. That "newt" cost the build nearly £1M in delays, costs etc etc.

I'm surprised they found it....

 

[steveR]

I'm surprised they found it....

I believe it was found be an interested member of the public....

 

[Steevo]

I believe it was found be an interested member of the public....

Ah! “Found”

 

[tullah]

Sprog One works for a big Civils company and what they really REALLY hate are bloody newts. They were doing the design and overseeing of a big roads project, and a "newt" was found in the site... allegedly. That "newt" cost the build nearly £1M in delays, costs etc etc.

Might it have been planted?

 

[Werzle]

Shutting roads because a badger has dug a sett in the verge just makes the mind boggle too, crazy crazy country.

 

[steveR]

Might it have been planted?

Surely not..................

 

[Steevo]

Might it have been planted?

That would be illegal would it not....interfering with a protected species and all that.