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"I would be really interested to hear of any specific examples of the sorts of decisions which have brought in the IDeA."

This one?



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Let's try that functional companion link that leads to the related official CC document again (perhaps 'Moderator' can enable it to work here?):



Failing that the pdf document can be located at agenda item SP/62 here:

Scoop for you, Mr Smith ( the ´óÏó´«Ã½loned man with no visible internet professional track record nor personal history or introduction at this skimpy and amateur 'blog'):

'The best laid plans and a good idea'?(post 15):

Perhaps another decision that could have resulted in the IDeA was the Central Planning Committee’s rejection of the Wainhomes application 09/00987 to build 107 houses on Golphin Farm, just outside St Austell. This went to appeal, which was upheld by the Planning Inspector, resulting in costs awarded against the council.
In April the same committee approved an application to build 12 houses in Scredda – a tiny hamlet where the local facilities start and finish with a post box! This was despite the objections of the local parish council. It would be interesting to know if this decision was influenced by the outcome of the Golphin Farm appeal.

Before buying a barn in North Cornwall, we went to the planning department for advice on the possiblity of converting it. They were very postive on our first meeting and suggested we came back with plans. We did and again they were very supportive, indeed, saying 'this is exactly the sort of environmental sympathetic conversion we like to see.' We went ahead and purchased the barn and submitted the plans, keeping in contact with the plannersthrough out the procees. The week before the deadline for a decision, when I contact them to check all was well, they told me they were going to turn it down! Before the auction, several people had approached the planners and been told the same thing, so the final price reflected that as like us, everyone bidding assumed they would get planning. The grounds for rejecting the plans were that the building was in too poor a condition to convert, which is ironic as the planners had visited the site BEFORE we submitted our plans and had given no indication of this at any of our meetings. Imagine my surprise when looking on the web today that I saw a simiar barn (in a much worse condition!) for sale not too far away with planning consent that was granted a couple of months before ours was turned down. Double standards I'd say. Or perhaps 'someone' has an interest in my property! Any one else had a similar experience?