Who decides if something needs planning permission?, another Newbury Town Council ****-up Options

[Andy Capp]

We already know about the relocation of the skate park 'in readiness for the pavilion', but I have now read how residents of the Middle Close/Elizabeth Ave were about to be subjected to a basket ball park on their doorstep without consultation. Like the skate park in Victoria park, It seems the park needed no planning permission.

The basket ball court was another Newbury Town Council ****-up. A case of every one else thought someone else knew.

Personally, I doubt it was a ****-up and am more inclined to think it was the council trying to do a sneaky one before the elections. The person that arbitrated between the residents and the council was Adrian Edwards (CON) of Falkland Ward.


Would anyone tell me who decides in cases like this, if planning permission is required?

[Simon Kirby]

We already know about the relocation of the skate park 'in readiness for the pavilion', but I have now read how residents of the Middle Close/Elizabeth Ave were about to be subjected to a basket ball park on their doorstep without consultation. Like the skate park in Victoria park, It seems the park needed no planning permission.

The basket ball court was another Newbury Town Council ****-up. A case of every one else thought someone else knew.

Personally, I doubt it was a ****-up and am more inclined to think it was the council trying to do a sneaky one before the elections. The person that arbitrated between the residents and the council was Adrian Edwards (CON) of Falkland Ward.


Would anyone tell me who decides in cases like this, if planning permission is required?

I understand it's the planners. Even when there's deemed consent if the planners disagree I think the next higher authority is a judicial review.

If I can I'll dig out the Regulation made under the Town and Country Planning Act that gives councils deemed consent for ancilliary stuff in their parks.

The thing I don't understand about the Victoria Park snafu is that WBC and NTC are not the same council, and so NTC can only build on bits of the park that it rents from WBC, and WBC can only build on bits of the park that it doesn't lease to NTC. So this stuff about building the pavilion where the skate park was to go doesn't make sense to me.