Labour to hire loads of new planning officers
Sir Woke XR Re… 09 Oct 23 07:34
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that’s always sounded like a good job to me

vaguely intellectual

interesting and important

public sector approach to working hours 

They’ll only be able to do this in Labour run councils though (as they can actually do already, today, if they are actually serious and not just talking the usual bollocks).

In so many local authorities declined applications are won on appeal because the LAs don’t have the budget to fight them - and they are too expensive to fight. 

No, if they take control of the process centrally (generally more of a tory trick, agreed) then they can appoint planning officers using central government powers

you are doing that lawyer thing of arguing about the way things are, when the discussion is about the way things will be