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Re: Planning permission in Letchworth

Posted By: Iva
Date: 3 Sep 2008 at 11:13

> I have read with interest the "invitation" to Letchworth residents to
> applly for retrospective planning permission for replacement windows etc.
> It seems the local authority (The Letchworth Garden CIty Heritage
> Foundation) are prepared to give each resident up to £6,000 or 50% of the
> cost to replace the windows back to the original design.
> I have several big problem with this.
> 1. The residents owning their houses and land in Letchworth made the
> choice to change their windows with the designs of their choice. What
> right does some little Hitler with a big job title have to dictate what
> design or style of window anybody must have in their own property?
> 2. What a waste of public money spending millions of pounds replacing
> perfectly good windows because they do not meet the aesthetic desires of
> some dictator with a grand job title?
> 3. The condition of the roads in Letchworth is as bad or worse than
> those in a third world country. They are full of potholes and in a
> deperate state is disrepair. If the authorities have all this money to
> waste, why dont they spend it on bringing the roads up to an acceptable
> standard and not on windows which are perfectly ok in the first place.
> Reading a little more of the Letchworth dictatorship policies, I see
> you are now also forbidden to cut down a tree in your garden without their
> approval. Or, a hedge, or it seems anything at all which could alter the
> appearence of your own property.
> I feel pretty confident these ludicrous and petty regulations are way
> above any restrictive laws you would see in any facist or communist
> dictatorship or police state. England is (or was) a free country whose
> people fought 2 world wars to rescue the world from this kind of
> stupididy. I for one want my country back. It has gone too far and I
> almost feel imprisoned and helpless in the face of all these awful
> stupidities. The people of this country can make a simple decision to
> remove a tree on their own property, or change their windows without being
> told how they should or should not do it. I have a simple message for the
> people deciding these rules:
> "Go and make a life for yoursleves by doing something useful and stop
> interfering in other peoples freedoms"
> I really wish they would do this.

This is so horrible.... i had so much believes in idea of garden city because i was so sure that individualism has very important place. but now i see that garden city is still utopia and also concept which you need to take the best of it and -not to take the advantage-!

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