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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob
I agree with what you say about identikit housing estates, whether private or council; being surrounded by them, I live with the consequences every day.
What seems to be missed is that as the planning authority surely the council has some say in determining housing density, materials used and standards of workmanship. If they don't, what use are they? What is the point of having a planning committee when developers are allowed to chuck together any old shed and call it a house?
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Sorry Park381 but A-Bs right. The Regional Spacial Strategy dictates quantity and building regulations determine quality. Local planning guidance dictates qualitive issues far and above the planning & building regs. Guideline exist for eg. on open space per development but as always we are talking minimum not optimum. When did the private sector consider anything optimum other than selling price to maximise profits? And the building game especially.
Hyndburn itself sets optimum standards. At the moment we have a laissez faire policy on quality of new build and have for a while. ie minimum standards only. This is in line with the current administrations [Cllr Britcliffe's that is] policy and thinking. I know we have lost 2 years [in my time] when we could have upped that but every May these things come up for consideration.
