Megaphone Development: The outcomeIf you look here*you will see that Huttonian has tracked down the application referred to in the post immediately below. He thought it might be turned down.It was.Lesson there somewhere.(*On opening the link scroll down to 'Hutton and Paxton Community Council' in the appropriate search slot and put in 01/04/2008 as the start date and 01/08/2008as the finishing one and Bob's your new...
Megaphone DevelopmentFor some mysterious reason the Scottish Borders' Planning Highheidyins have made it difficult to access the latest details of the contentious outline planning application for four new houses at Hutton Castle Barns. It may be because this is not a new application but the continuation of an old one which was withdrawn late last year because of local opposition and because the planning flaws in the proposal were exposed. It was a classic case how not to apply. Let the neighbours find out either when they are contacted via the formal notification process or when they log on to the SBC Planning website! It would surely have been more courteous to have knocked on a few doors (5 or so only) and explained what they wanted to do taking account of people's views and comments...
Neighbours RevisitedHuttonian gets it wrong sometimes and he has got this one wrong big time. Go to http://eplanning1.scotborders.gov.uk/WAM/doc/Correspondence-2095917.pdf?extension=.pdf&id=2095917&location=VOLUME1&contentType=application/pdf&pageCount=1&appid=1001 and you will see, incredible as it may seem, that the application to build 4 new houses at Hutton Castle Barns, withdrawn after strong objections to the original proposal, has been lobbed in again. I had told one of the previous objectors that I was confident that the idea was dead. Wrong.Very.The application is identical in every way to the original one. Not a nod towards the comments made before many of them based on good planning objections. Not even an attempt to address the difficult problem of access. The application is...
