Unless your spare garden is enormous....

" Having received a copy of the reason for planning refusal on 25 Upper Bar it has become evident to me that never again will planning permission be granted in Newport for an individual property development, be it a new build or a simple conversion. This has nothing to do with either Telford & Wrekin Borough Council or its Plans board who are only the vehicle being used by the Labour Government to squeeze out the private individual yet again. Obviously the 35% low cost ruling cannot be considered applicable where a single development is concerned.

Mr Browns government don't agree, there motto is 'if it don't fit our bill you don't build it,' of course they are very happy for you to sell your apparently worthless building plot to a get rich quick developer for a knock down price who knows he will have no problem getting planning permission to build two,large single floor flats with a pigeon loft in the roof space called the third storey so meeting the 35% low-cost criteria while at the same time making a fortune out of your worthless plot.

The Government ruling makes no exception and states that all new developments be it single or a multiple, a new build or a conversion must meet the new development criteria of 35% low cost housing in Newport as laid out in his Labour Governments LDF documents. How stupid is that? Only Labour could dream up such a stupid rule But then they are stupid aren't they.

Foot note. I just hope Mr Brown of Newport Civic Soc owns a single building plot Oh but of course I had forgotten he agrees that restrictions should be put on housing development in Newport!"

From Councillor Meredith