Comments by "Alex" (@Alex-cw3rz) on "Channel 4 News"
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I think the most important point made is the decrease in planning officers over the last 13 years due to tory cuts. You can have planning officers at times dealing with over 100 cases at once and as he said they have 8 weeks to be sorted. That is neighbour consultation, site visit, parish Council consultation, other consultation such as highways, environmental etc. Catch up if something isn't correct in the application, do a site visit, committee hearings, Write a 1,500 word report and they have just over 2 hours to dedicate to each case. Of course there will be over runs. This is compounded as the stress means planning officers leave and then more cases go onto the ones left. One thing you'll notice if you ever enter a planning department is most of the men are bald, because they are working in a very stressful environment, due to budget cuts, angry applicants and neighbours etc.
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