‘Blight on the landscape’ in Greenwich lacks promised gardens, children’s play areas and accessibility for wheelchair users
  • merridewOPEnglish
    34·
    9 months ago

    Well

    only one in 10 council planning departments are fully staffed, with 13% operating with fewer than three-quarters of posts filled

    with

    80% [of local authorities] reporting they did not have enough officers to carry out their workload

    because

    long-term cuts to funding have had a visible impact on planning departments’ ability to retain staff… there has been a 43% fall in resources to the planning system from local authorities since 2009-10.

    https://www.lgcplus.com/services/regeneration-and-planning/planning-people-go-from-council-to-council-chasing-the-money-17-05-2023/

    • RiskEnglish
      28·
      9 months ago

      Honest to god. Every time the curtain is peeled back on any aspect of our country, the damage that has been done since 2010 makes me reel.

      • Big PEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        Don’t worry, come election time the media will be non stop focusing on starmer saying something questionable and the tories will be voted in again