A largely futile attempt by planners to get developers to cough up for all the glamorous things the developers promised at the time of the application but had no intention or capacity to deliver. Often part of an attempt by planners to pre-empt a revised planning application.
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Win (vb)
January 13, 2011As in to 'win' a planning consent: to receive permission in the normal way, usually for a particularly meretricious proposal from a particularly desperate planning authority. Rumours that the new National Planning Framework, trailed in the Localism Bill, will introduce a 'Strictly' style talent show format into the process are as yet unfounded.
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February 12, 2012A largely futile attempt by planners to get developers to cough up for all the glamorous things the developers promised at the time of the application but had no intention or capacity to deliver. Often part of an attempt by planners to pre-empt a revised planning application.
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January 13, 2011A vibrant (qv) and growing branch of urban theology whose core belief is that spending a very, very, very large amount of money on sporting venues in a very, very, very, small part of the country, will bring potentially limitless benefits to a potentially limitless number and range of people, or possibly Tottenham Hotspur
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February 12, 2012An earnest and exhaustive combination of the obvious, the speculative and the impossible-to-know. Believed to be the origin of the phrase ' unable to see the wood for the trees' . Analysis in America suggests that they are approaching the point where the carbon footprints of the larger EIAs, which need to be transported in semi -trucks, will require an EIA of their own.
Read moreA revised planning application
February 12, 2012A proposal by developers to remove from a consented scheme all the bits of a scheme they always knew would be too difficult, or expensive to do, leaving them with the bits that make the most money, and the community with a half baked result.
Read moreKick start (vb)
January 13, 2011a generally vain attempt to get something immovable to move, with a large amount of hubris and publicity, and few obvious or measurable results. The kick, applied without due care, can have the opposite effect to that intended and bring it to a final and permanent halt.
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