{"id":21619,"date":"2015-12-04T15:54:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T15:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=21619"},"modified":"2015-12-08T03:33:05","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T03:33:05","slug":"ealings-new-planning-notification-system-criticised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/ealings-new-planning-notification-system-criticised\/21619\/","title":{"rendered":"Ealing\u2019s new planning notification system criticised"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span>The move from neighbour notification letters to lamp post site notices near proposed developments in Ealing has been criticised\u2026<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The way in which Ealing\u2019s planning department informs local residents about new planning applications has allegedly led to an increase in complaints.<\/p>\n<p>Ealing replaced its neighbour notification letters system with new lamp post site notices in July. The move was made in February 2015 after the administration agreed to save \u00a330,000 in the Planning Services budget. However, the change has reportedly resulted in costly re-evaluations and consultations.<\/p>\n<p>Councillors at the local authority said they had experienced an increase in the amount of correspondence relating to planning issues since the notification system was changed.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative Planning Lead <a href=\"http:\/\/ealing.cmis.uk.com\/ealing\/Councillors\/tabid\/63\/ctl\/ViewCMIS_Person\/mid\/383\/id\/38\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Councillor Joanna Dabrowska<\/span><\/a> said: &#8220;Since its introduction the number of enquiries in my mailbag has ballooned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany have resulted in inadequate consultation and the need for a re-consultation. This inefficiency has increased the council officer (and senior management intervention) time spent on dealing with such enquiries and then repeating the planning process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the added potential of unscrupulous developers taking down the signs leaving residents none the wiser, this makes a mockery of the planning system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8217;Too often this delays the determination of planning applications and also puts further strain on an already busy planning department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Labour administration are making cuts for cuts&#8217; sake instead of looking at cost efficiencies. This is a false saving as the hidden cost of dealing with the additional workload will exceed the planned savings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The councillor called on the local authority to reinstate the previous system.<\/p>\n<p>In other London boroughs the councils are trying different notification systems. Hounslow is in the process of piloting a system to post notices on two sites, a weekly newsletter, and on social media. The project, which gained funding from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/department-for-communities-and-local-government\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Department of Communities and Local Government<\/span><\/a>, is being undertaken in partnership with Neighbour Net. Ealing Council was asked to participate in the project but declined.<\/p>\n<p>According to the local authority there were 19 complaints from residents regarding a lack of consultation last year. Since the new system was introduced there have been nine, with no re-consultations.<\/p>\n<p>Council Leader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ealing.gov.uk\/info\/200033\/councillors\/567\/cabinet\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Julian Bell<\/span> <\/a>said, &#8220;It is nonsense to suggest that the changes we have made have led to more complaints, there have actually been fewer complaints under the new system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will make the savings we have budgeted for, it is factually wrong to say these savings are more costly. It tells you everything you need to know about the Conservative opposition group that they have made these claims without asking officers for the actual numbers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The move from neighbour notification letters to lamp post site notices near proposed developments in Ealing has been criticised\u2026 The way in which Ealing\u2019s planning department informs local residents about new planning applications has allegedly led to an increase in complaints. Ealing replaced its neighbour notification letters system with new lamp post site notices in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ealing\u2019s new planning notification system criticised | Planning, Building &amp; Construction Today<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The move from neighbour notification letters to lamp post site notices near proposed developments in Ealing has been criticised\u2026\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/ealings-new-planning-notification-system-criticised\/21619\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ealing\u2019s new planning notification system criticised\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The move from neighbour notification letters to lamp post site notices near proposed developments in Ealing has been criticised\u2026\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/ealings-new-planning-notification-system-criticised\/21619\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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