The complainant is the former owner of a substantial detached house and farm steading buildings in a rural part of the Council’s area. Prior to marketing his property, Mr C commissioned an architectural practice to obtain planning consent on his behalf for demolition of some existing buildings and residential development in the farm courtyard area. The complaint made by The Practice on Mr C’s behalf is that salient information was omitted in a written response to a pre-application planning enquiry and that Mr C incurred substantial abortive costs in design fees and that the planning application fee was also lost when Mr C decided that the application should be withdrawn.
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Investigation Report 30191
Updated: December 11, 2018