It appears that there’s another twist in planning peculiarities relating to the recommendation and subsequent approval of a development at Hazelhurst in Freshwater (previous).
Among the 226 comments submitted to the planning department, there is a letter sent by Anthony Robson, the owner of Blenheim House – a neighbouring property. It is dated 8th May and informs the planning officers of inaccuracies on the plans.
Mr Robson points out that according to the plans submitted by the architect of the proposed development, the building line in front of the property has been moved.
He goes onto say that there is also an annotation to this drawing by the architect, which states that the building line was based upon information supplied by the owner of Blenheim House.
In his letter Mr Robson states categorically that he did not provide this information. Strange that it should be added surely?
IW Planning Department Aware of Right to Wreck
In the same letter, stamped as being received by the planning department on 9th May (22 days before the Planning Committee), he also drew attention to the Right to Wreck covenant.
This covenant was not raised during discussions at the Planning Committee, so was the letter not read by the planning officer who addressed the Committee, or did they decide that it was not sufficiently important to point it out?
We know that each of the officers in planning has a number of cases on the go at once, but let’s hope we haven’t got to the situation where the workload on each individual planning officer is so high, that they have to rely on the public to point out problems with applications.
But if they do, it would be useful for them not to have to deal with those members of the public so dismissively, as has been suggested to us by some.
