Dickie’s unobtrusive dormer window – no planning permission required?
Richard “The Builder” Fear, Service Manager (Property) Assets at Bristol City Council, characterises the new breed of smarmy, arrogant, overpaid oafs running our council these days.
For some reason Rich the Builder has decided to install an “upscale dormer window” at his poncy period gaff in Haverstock Road in upmarket Knowle without bothering to apply for planning permission! Does this member of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and leading council property “expert”, struggling to get by on about £60k a year, think that planning permission is only for the little people?
Possibly. Although Fear’s long-suffering neighbours take a different view. So the overpaid and underperforming tosspot – whose department currently has a £9m hole in its budget being plugged by redundancies to decent low paid staff providing an actual service to us – is having to apply for retrospective planning permission on what one nearby resident describes as “a huge property extension that blatantly overlooks his neighbours, not a fucking dormer window.”
Should Fear’s retrospective planning bid fail – as it should – then he’ll have to pull the whole thing down. If it succeeds then Bristol City Council will be having to explain away another conflict of interest from this senior property boss.
Because we also note that Rich the Builder ran his own business – ‘Corporate Property Insight Ltd’ – from his Haverstock Road address between 2013 and 2015 while he was a senior employee of the city council making major decisions about our property assets.
How many conflicts of interest is one council boss allowed?
The application has been refused, however of course he has appealed against that. The basis of the appeal (which can be found here http://planningonline.bristol.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=OD4JLZDNILP00 ) seems to be that apart from the two issues (Not recessed and awful timber cladding) it is perfectly complaint with the planning rules oh and they have lived in the area for 15 years so come on planning department why have you refused it.
Maybe questions needs to be asked about what he told the local residents he was building when they first started work on it , perhaps that would explain why people in the local area are so against it. I’m not sure telling fibs to people about the size of the construction was going to get them on his side.
The application has already been refused and an appeal submitted.
http://planningonline.bristol.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=OD4JLZDNILP00