27th February 2006, 11:12 AM
Quote:quote:Is it possible that the curators own planning department has over-ruled him/her and this is the best that can be achieved?
We can only make recommendations to planners for inclusion in their reports and the planner then weighs up the responses which they have received from their various advisors and makes a judgement on the development from that. Depending upon the importance of the scheme the decision will either be delegated to the officer or come before the planning committee.
The question here is whether the development has obtained planning permission. If that is the case is the developer using an old brief for the site to devise a mitigation strategy which may relate to a different development proposal or has a new brief been written to take into account the street frontage development?