I've been out of it for some years now and there may be a town planner on the forum, so hopefully he would correct me, however you can have written representations and verbal representations. A lot is dependent upon what your interest in the project is and who you represent. Parish Councils and the like have a lot of sway over planning decisions and some "interest" groups will apply pressure to be heard at an appeal hearing. The man on the street can definitely have his say on planning issues. It doesn't mean they will be taken into account as you get plenty of crackpots, but the opportunity is there.

There is a general presumption in favour of sustainable development in Planning provided it doesn't fall foul of Local planning Policies but you also sometimes have contradictions between local policies and national policies. It is indeed a complicated world.

I haven't really spent much time looking at the Palace submission but I would imagine the advisors would have spent considerable time getting the local planning officers on board and getting the improved ground into the approved Local Plan for the Selhurst area.

Michael Gove, Conservative party chief whip, speaking on BBC Radio 4’s World at One.

First, and it is important to state this, the Labour government was not responsible for the 2008 recession. The recession was caused by the housing bubble bursting in the US which led to subsequent financial crises in other countries.

Correct. However Labour were responsible for running up debt prior to the crisis which severely restricted the ability of the government to deal with the crisis.

If you spend all your money on buying a swimming pool for the kids you options are limited when you discover the roof is leaking.

One more point

If the present trend continues we don't need labour as Johnson is doing it anyway.....

When a national emergency comes along only socialist policies work.

I am looking forward to the Johnson 5 year plan followed by the great leap forward.

When there is not national emergencies it dont work and creates issues this is why the middle is the correct place to be so you can accept both. However Brown selling all our gold did result in even worst post recession britain.

That's not because of the concept of a free service but instead more along the lines of how the NHS would be structured....well the Tory paper suggests that, I can't speak for what the Doctors' thought other than how they voted.

The Tories wanted independent providers, in some senses similar to what you have now whereas Labour wanted a nationalised centralised service.

The reality was that whoever would have been in power a free health service was going to be implemented at some point.....The Tories could have got rid of it in the fifties if they had been that ideologically opposed.

It was hardly a brand new concept and versions of it had already existed in parts of Europe.

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