Targetism under scrutiny
The Association of Consultant Architects' (ACA) correspondence with the chief executive of the Planning Inspectorate (AJ 28.10.04) has put the spotlight on the meltdown of the appeals system and one of its principal causes: the proliferation of 'quickie refusals' to meet deadlines, long ago predicted and reported here. Ten per cent of planning authorities had deductions made from their 'delivery grant' last year for falsifying statistical returns. The ODPM has called for revised returns ...
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