Planners may not know the Difference!
It is often recognised that on the roller-coaster ride that is Planning, "good design" won't necessarily gain a Permission.
It simply isn't that simple.
There are a host of criteria that must be satisfied in order to win a recommendation for approval from the Planning Officer(s) and many have little directly to do with design quality.
The adopted policies of the Local Planning Authority (LPA)
are pivotal and set the broad principles to be applied for
the locality but let's get back to design for a moment and
get really simplistic:
Most people know that architects design buildings.
They
may not in fact know that architects are only involved in
15% of all planning applications because for whatever
reason, the remainder are entrusted to non-architects!
Architects are professionally qualified after a long, formal training, registered and insured by law.
Others, need not be.
Sadly, Planning Officers are rarely trained in design and often don't know the difference!
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