gaz1
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I know the opposite side of that oneYour not wrong, the system of councils planning where development goes knows as the 5 year land supply is a sound policy, it gives developers and land owners the opportunity to put their land forward for future development and the council decides through rigorous process where its best placed. All sounds good! untill the council takes 2-3 years to approve plans then suddenly they cant meet their housing targets and are wide open for windfall sites and the appeals process.
the land has been planned by surveyor and the builder is pushing for every little space being used for there buildings
the more houses he builds the more profits he gets
the knock back often is for trees and not enough space for a turning circle bin wagons
then you have issues from other residence as they dont want a building site or muddy roads to contend with and an area for there children to play on
what you dont know is you may get planning to pass 3 houses build then its submit another set of plans to plan for 5 houses build on the same plot remember this is all greed on the part of the developers ive seen many plans knocked back for this greed
so they then sit on this land not building houses as they can build elsewhere then they try again with another set of plans which then gets knocked back so they go to an apeal
in other cases by the big builders bribary payouts is there to get plans past and many are in on it