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Public 'removed' from tense Surrey council planning meeting as councillors felt 'intimidated' during 270-home development discussion
At a July 3 Mole Valley District Council (MVDC) Development Management Committee meeting, around 50 residents where "removed" ...
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dRMM-led Peckham housing scheme tipped for symbolic refusal
Southwark Council is set to turn down controversial plans to replace Peckham’s Aylesham shopping centre with 877 homes as ...
Elland planning application withdrawn from meeting
A planning application for more than 400 homes which was due to be decided on by councillors this week, was withdrawn from the meeting late in ...
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Two-minute Wrexham planning meeting delays decision on 600-home plan
Plans for 600 homes on Holt Road could potentially go to appeal with no objection recorded by Wrexham Council after planning committee was ...
Tougher rules for Darlington HMOs approved by council
Current national rules allow owners to convert a home into an HMO for up to six people without requiring planning permission. Darlington Borough Council said the new powers will protect residential ...
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DUP councillor Linda Clarke - the wife of MLA Trevor Clarke - suspended over planning committee failures
A DUP councillor and wife of an MLA has been suspended from her council post for three months for failing to declare an ...
‘Not the end’ of plan to save Birnbeck Pier after RNLI pull out
The leader of North Somerset Council has insisted that the RNLI pulling out of the restoration of Birnbeck Pier is “not the ...
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Council probe finds that planning committee chair breached code of conduct after emailing stand-in about meeting he could not attend
A planning committee chairman has been removed from his committee after a council probe found that he created the “perception ...