30th November 2020
Dear All,
procedures one needs examples and I have chosen the two that I have been dealing with over the last seven years.
For each case to which I refer and use as evidence, the original and some approved plans are available. Copies of them can be found on the public website ‘theharbourview.co.uk’ and to save on numerous attachments they can be viewed by searching on the drawing reference number.
There is another case in the borough where building control and planning enforcement appear to have gone with the wind and that is where a developer built a block of flats with an extra floor. This
will always be open to speculation until a copy of the original plan turn up. They are believed to show approval for a three stories and has 4.
In the two examples to which I refer, the approved plans still existed when the complaints first arose, and it was shown quite clearly that both developments were not built to the approved plan. It appears from both, that the Council first corrupted their own complaints procedure then misused the services of the Local Government Ombudsman (Ombudsman), to hide the lack of building control.
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