Harry
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LDC planning problems - 2008/01/10 17:59
Norman Baker made an interesting comment in a Commons debate on planning on 8 January 2008:
8 January 2008
'Lewes district council in my constituency, is so thin on staff, so tight is the ship being run, so few are the officers employed, that the director of planning, because of staff illness, is now determining simple household applications on his own. There is hardly anyone else in the department—that is how thin things have become because of pressures on finances and because of the drip-feed of planning grant. It is an issue for local authorities in London and the south-east in particular, but perhaps it applies more widely. The problems are going to get worse in times ahead.'
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