Planning Complaints

Appeals against an approved application cannot be made. But developers can appeal against their rejected ones.

The only method available to overturn an approval decision is by a very expensive Judicial Review which only looks at the process not the policies.

We have therefore recently started to use the council’s complaints procedure to lodge our concerns when applications are approved when blatantly disregarding planning policies.

Full details are in the monthly planning reports. Below is a high level summary.

 

Address Planning
Ref
(Complaint Case Number)		 MORA Objection Stage 1
Complaint		 Stage 1
Response		 Stage 2
Complaint
(Complaint Ref. Number)		 Stage 2
Response		 Local Government
Ombudsman (Case ID Number(s))		 Outcome
16 – 18 Ash Tree Close 19/04705/FUL 20th Oct 2019
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19th Dec 2019 (Amended Drawings)		 6th Apr 2020 30th Apr 2020 18th May 2020 15th Jun 2020 13th Aug     2020
(20 003 522)
(20 008 119)		 11th Nov 2020
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30th Dec 2020
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6th Jan 2021
Final Decision (Ref: 20 003 522)
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6th Jan 2021
Final Decision (Ref: 20 008 119)
17 Orchard Avenue 19/00131/FUL 3rd Apr 2019
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5th Aug 2019 (Amended Drawings)		 20th Dec 2019 9th Jan 2020 26th Jan 2020
(CAS-126578-P1P6P4)		 18th Feb 2020 LGO will not proceed without Residents’ consent for MORA representation* LGO will not proceed without Residents’ consent for MORA representation*
56 Woodmere Avenue 19/01352/FUL
(CAS-123091-Y3J7R2)		 8th Apr  2019
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2nd Jun 2019 (Amended Drawings)
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17th Sep 2019 (Second Amended Drawings)
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19th Sep 2019 (Second Amended Drawings – Addendum)		 8th Dec 2019 18th Dec 2019 13th Jan 2020 10th Feb 2020 11th Mar 2020
(19 020 965)		 12th Jun 2020
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16th Jun 2020 (MORA Response)
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8th Sep 2020
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15th Feb 2021
(MORA Draft Decision Response)
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26th Feb 2021
Final Decision
37 Woodmere Avenue 19/03064/FUL
(CAS-105503-W1M7W2)		 24th Jul 2019 17th Oct 2019 14th Nov 2019 1st Dec 2019       (CAS-105503-W1M7W2) 23rd Dec 2019 LGO will not proceed without Residents’ consent for MORA representation* LGO will not proceed without Residents’ consent for MORA representation*
Pegasus (18a) Fairhaven Avenue 19/01761/FUL
(CAS-73997-G6H8D7)		 8th May 2019 21st Jul 2019 12th Aug 2019 19th Aug 2019 15th Oct 2019 11th Nov 2019           (19 013 770) 21st Nov 2019
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Consent Form
32 Woodmere Avenue 19/00783/FUL
(CASE5039127)		 14th Mar 2019
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28th May 2019 (Amended Drawings)		 4th Jul 2019 26th Jul 2019 4th Aug 2019
(CAS-79367-X3T0W3)		 10th Sep 2019 1st Oct 2019 (19 011 300) 12th Nov 2019
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Consent Form
9a Orchard Rise 18/06070/FUL
(CASE4939913)		 10th Jan 2019
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25th Jan 2019 (Addendum)		 28th Mar 2019 24th Apr 2019 1st May 2019 23rd May 2019 4th Jun   2019
(19 000 3809)		 16th Jul 2019
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22nd Jul 2019 (MORA Response)
20-22 The Glade 18/05928/FUL
(CASE4893951)		 4th Jan 2019 14th Feb 2019 5th Mar 2019 14th Mar 2019 9th Apr 2019 14th Apr 2019
(19 000 971)		 24th May 2019
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2nd Jun 2019 (MORA Response)
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3rd Jun 2019           (LGO Response)

*This issue is being pursued by correspondence with Sarah Jones, MP (Croydon Central), who is consulting with Rt. Hon Robert Jenrick MP, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government.