Sunday 21 February 2021

Planning officers are supposed to be neutral and impartial

Despite any appearance at Devon County Council to the contrary – for example in relation to a Minerals Plan where inclusion of a site was championed on behalf of a Swiss multinational despite all the glaringly obvious constraints, or a planning application first submitted in 2015 for a quarry at the same site that has been allowed to drag on interminably without meaningful progress thereby putting lives and businesses on hold – planning officers are meant to be neutral and impartial.