What about the public interest in ensuring maximum publicity for planning applications, in order to give people full opportunity to make representations?
Maurice Frankel
Campaign for Freedom of Information
At 10:09 am +0000 5/2/01, Yuill, Allan wrote:
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> They don't have to publish the whole list, unlike the
>electoral roll. It could be argued that they are exceeding their legal
>authority if they do. Given the concerns expressed in previous threads in
>this news group about local companies harvesting planning applications for
>marketing purposes, I'd also advise against publishing planning applications
>on Council web sites
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>Given that 'harvesting' takes place with newspaper adverts, personally I
>would be very reluctant to see any planning register published in this way.
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>Allan Yuill
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