but I have zero recourse.
It's two years since we submitted plans to build six houses on our land.
The council pledges on its website these types of applications should take 13 weeks.
There is no actual objection to build from them. We have jumped through all the drip fed hoops they've fed back to us very slowly over the past two years.
Our planning officer has often not answered emails or responded to phone messages for weeks on end. When we send a request for information via a solictor's letter or contact her superior, she then responds, refuses to commit to a time scale and promises to prioritise our application.
I know there are cuts in the councils. But this level of unprofessionalism is astonishing.
What can I do now? We are in limbo, not knowing whether our application is successful or not. We would like to do up our house but the layout of the build means we need to know if the application has passed or not.
Should I write to my MP about this or will I serve to antagonise the planning officer?