London apartment block that deviates from plans must be torn down, says council
London apartment block that deviates from plans must be torn down, says council
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I don't know anything about planning / building, but does the planning office not inspect sites periodically to make sure the plans are being followed?
Well
only one in 10 council planning departments are fully staffed, with 13% operating with fewer than three-quarters of posts filled
with
80% [of local authorities] reporting they did not have enough officers to carry out their workload
because
long-term cuts to funding have had a visible impact on planning departments’ ability to retain staff... there has been a 43% fall in resources to the planning system from local authorities since 2009-10.
Honest to god. Every time the curtain is peeled back on any aspect of our country, the damage that has been done since 2010 makes me reel.
Don't worry, come election time the media will be non stop focusing on starmer saying something questionable and the tories will be voted in again
Well, if not properly staffed, hopefully full demolition will act as an effective self-enforced compliance to other builders in the future.
If hiring a good architect that knows the regulations well, then there shouldn't be much need for deviation from the original plans. I understand some deviations may happen, but that is when you should be in contact with the local planning department to remedy and get approval for minor changes (shouldn't be anything quite this drastic of a difference though).
I'm betting, based on how much building is going on along the Greenwich riverside, that this was approved pre-covid, then when the costs started rising afterward they thought they could cut corners to save a few bob.
If they have already sold the flats then paid thr money to shell companies, then it may be home owners left short unable to claim back
It's a buy to rent building, they're all owned by the Devs/investors and rented out. People will just end their tenancies.