• @merridew@feddit.ukOP
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    339 months ago

    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.

    https://www.lgcplus.com/services/regeneration-and-planning/planning-people-go-from-council-to-council-chasing-the-money-17-05-2023/

    • @Risk@feddit.uk
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      279 months ago

      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.

      • Big P
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        29 months ago

        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

      • @NuPNuA@lemm.ee
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        39 months ago

        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.

      • Hogger85b
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        19 months ago

        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

        • @NuPNuA@lemm.ee
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          39 months ago

          It’s a buy to rent building, they’re all owned by the Devs/investors and rented out. People will just end their tenancies.