Efforts to address critical policy concerns like the housing crisis and climate change are being frustrated by the process
, where decisions by council planners are liable to be overturned on appeal, or on subsequent judicial review. A council’s decision to grant planning permission rarely means work on the project can actually proceed. That results in uncertainty, delay and cost, impeding timely action to build new homes, or tackle climate change.
I’ve heard of permission refused for a bathroom that involved changes to the roof space, because of the visual impact as seen from the air, not from the ground. A friend who was remodelling a 1920s house – as neighbours had done – was told they must retain the original front wall of the building, even though it had been built without any foundations.
Ironically, Kildare County Council had funded a rather similar boxing ballerina, by the same artist, on a gable wall in Athy.
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