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How many planning notices make a consultation?

12 February, 2008 - 13:18 — Jo H

Pollok Park user Bob Downie, writing in The Herald today regarding the proposed Go Ape adventure course, has learned that "only a single planning notice was placed on a lamp-post outside the park on November 9, 2007". The planning department is unable to say how long the single notice was in position.

You can read Bob Downie's letter about the results of his Freedom of Information request here

The council has maintained throughout that they did run an "adequate" consultation. But Mr Downie's discovery does seem to clear up the confusion felt by regular visitors to the park, who couldn't understand how news of the proposals had completely passed them by.
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13 February, 2008 - 15:18 — highshawlands

Planning

Reminded me of The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy when the council demolish Arthur Dent's house to build a bypass...

But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months."
"Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything."
"But the plans were on display ..."
"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the display department."
"With a flashlight."
"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But look, you found the notice didn't you?"
"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'."