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Planning permission - Lean-to Greenhouse/shed
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Malcolm wrote: No, I don't think it does, in the slightest! The more especially as the questioner lives in Aberdeen and planning is a devolved matter in Scotland so information about what happens in Greater London, or indeed happened in the Thatcher years, doesn't really help him very much. It provides background to why your response is unreliable. You may not regard that as help, but he might. Aberdeen City Council, which was only formed in 1996, will no doubt be able to advise on planning regulations operating, as it does, under the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997, which repealed the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972, which in turn was the Scottish version of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 from which you quoted. Would you like to quote the relevant section of the 1997 Act that gives local authorities powers to make regulations? If not, why not provide SOME hint as to why you are saying that it gives VASTLY more powers to them than the 1971 Act does? I am saying that I have been told by a fairly reliable source that it does not. My source have been wrong, or I may have misunderstood, but it is certainly a matter that the initial questioner should check up on if the local authority is uncooperative or gives an unpalatable answer. Therefore, the answer *has* to come from the local planning department, while asking questions on newsgroups will not (indeed almost certainly cannot) produce the same definitive answer, however "bogus" you might think it could be based on your apparent experience of, presumably English, local authorities and regardless of decisions made by, presumably English, courts, neither of which are relevant in this instance. Your presumptions are, as usual, unwarranted. As you ought to know, the matter of delegated powers is one where Scottish and English used to vary considerably, but now do so much less, as the result of huge amounts of statute legislation and the consequent court cases. In both cases, there is no penalty on a local authority for misleading questioners, and my point about the untrustworthiness of a response remains valid. No, the answer does NOT "have to" come from the local authority, despite what you or other apparatchiks may believe. To repeat what I said, if he gets advice that conflicts seriously with what he wants to do, he should check if the local authority is correct. There is a significant chance that it is not, and a small chance that it is deliberately misleading him. And that advice applies as much to Scotland as to England. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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