| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Another one bites the dust | |
| Posted by: | Adam Beamish | |
| Date/Time: | 21/08/19 10:02:00 |
| Tracie, As Vanessa has pointed out, I only involved myself in this thread when A N Other brought up an issue that as you correctly say was rather off tangent, but which, due to its insinuation, justified a response from myself. This is inevitably going to come across as arrogance, but to some extent you should appreciate the fact that I do post on these forums, because as a planning professional I can provide the expertise and legal basis on issues that are being discussed. I can't help the fact that sometimes what I post isn't what people want to hear. As I've said many times I've got nothing to gain from engaging on these forums, and largely the only reason I do is to sometimes set matters straight so that people might understand the planning system better. It's like when I was recently approached to assist objectors to a scheme in Ealing and as part of my research I read over 900 objections, of which a good 875 raised points that aren't material planning considerations and thus will carry no weight whatsoever, despite all the time and effort put into them by the authors. Had that time been spent seeking out a professional view, as fortunately 1 person known to me had the foresight to do, those objections might have actually carried some weight. Indeed, with the O'Riordan's proposal, although the applicant has tried to do so, in my experience it is very hard to successfully demonstrate that a public house is no longer financially viable when it is still actively trading, which is why you'll often see pubs shut for 2 years or so and then an application for redevelopment comes forward. Indeed I've attended pre-app meetings with Officers from LBH on similar proposals when Officers have said that the Council wouldn't look favourably upon any such proposals until a pub had been closed and marketed for at least 1 year. So if I was objecting to the O'Riordan's application that is the route I'd be going down. Now to me, in setting that out I'm being helpful, I have nothing to gain or lose whether the application is approved or not, yet there's always someone who seems unable to appreciate that. |