WRITTEN ON March 16th, 2006 BY Peter Seaman AND STORED IN Uncategorized

I recently had occasion to write to the Planning Inspectorate with a query regarding a recent appeal. The reply I received contained the following paragraph, which I quote verbatim.

As advised by telephone that documents submitted to the council previously in respect of the related planning application, would not be before the Inspector, and would have to be re-submitted again with any objections within the 6 weeks of the appeal being confirmed, but as you were not informed to re-submit the documents again for the new appeal to the Inspectorate who are independent from the council therefore this will not be before the Inspector to consider, we can not accept them at this stage as the 6 weeks date has passed (16/12/05). This is why your documents were therefore not listed on the planning portal as we do not have copies of these documents.

At the end of their reply they state “Correspondents should note that all communications to or from The Planning Inspectorate may be automatically logged, monitored and/or recorded for lawful purposes.”

Wouldn’t it be nice if the correspondence they send out is also monitored for a reasonable standard of English?

Peter Seaman