Sandwell Planning Committee: When “Approve Subject to Conditions” Becomes a Governance Warning Sign There is a phrase that appe...

Email sent to members of planning committee:  I'm writing this to you all just to put in writing serious concerns about this...

Friar Park Again: Approved on Conditions, Excuses and Thin Answers Well, there we have it. DC/25/71072 was approved by 7 vote...

Three Friar Park Approvals. Three Warning Signs. One Planning Culture Problem. Let’s get one thing straight from the start. Fri...

February in Sandwell: A Month of Transparency, Accountability… and Other Mythical Creatures If you felt a slight tremor throug...

Sandwell’s Local Plan: 1,000 Pages of Evasion, 14,449 Homes Missing and a Consultation Designed to Exhaust You Let’s stop preten...

Friar Park: Since the Last Blog, Things Got… Clearer (Just Not Better) If you thought silence was the problem last time, you’ll ...

Planning by Déjà Vu: Four Developments, the Same Questions, and a Growing Sense of Unease If you live anywhere near Friar Park, ...

Friar Park’s New Gold Rush: Who Really Benefits? You’d think Friar Park was about to become Monaco the way the PR machine is c...