[UK-CONTEST] Fw: GM4FAM friends 3 for 1 Towers

[Steve Knowles]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Knowles" <g3ufy at blueyonder.co.uk>
To: "Jerry Scarr" <jerryscarr at googlemail.com>
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 12:50 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] GM4FAM friends 3 for 1 Towers


> Clearly (to quote Dickens) "the Law is a Ass".
>
> I'm extremely concerned to be told that Council officers have the power to 
> enter upon private land, sieze and destroy private possessions and bill 
> the lawful owner for their destruction, and all without a Court Order!!! 
> I would like to know the Act & Section of the legislation which confers 
> these powers.
>
> For general info, I applied for, and was awarded, planning permission for 
> my tower (only 44 ft - not a monster) and also two other masts within my 
> curtilege.  I am in an urban environment, so no views to despoil, but if 
> things were to fall over they could hit other people's houses - hence my 
> substantial (£5M) third-party insurance requirement.
>
> I had canvassed the neighbours extensively, but there was still one 
> complaint  ... that when the sun rose in summer the tower would cast a 
> shadow on to the complainant's bedroom wall.  I was told this 
> (unofficially, of course) when the planning officer visited to tell me 
> that permission had been granted.  Apparently there was laughter all round 
> at the planning meeting.  But this was in 1988.  Today's po-faced 
> self-important loons would probably see it differently.  After all, the 
> word "No" is the most powerful word in the vocabulary, and the word "yes" 
> the weakest (think about it)!
>
> Long live reason!
>
> G3UFY
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jerry Scarr" <jerryscarr at googlemail.com>
> To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 12:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] GM4FAM friends 3 for 1 Towers
>
>
>>
>> Ref the 3 for 1 towers   Whoever this authority is, they are out of step
>> with planning law. In law the 3 portable towers were illegal   and the
>> council enforcement officer should have given notice to remove them 
>> within
>> 14 days or the council would do so, scrap them, and bill the person
>> concerned for removal costs.
>>
>>  The scenario you describe is the wrong way to go about getting 
>> permission
>> and had this been attempted in my day enforcement would definitely have
>> been Taken as a matter of principle and up holding planning law. The 
>> person
>> and site would have blighted any further chance of a successful 
>> application.
>>
>> Planning law exists to safeguard us all so that we do not have to endure
>> eyesores. I repeat all I said in my previous blog.
>> Jerry G6LBL
>>
>>
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