ON November 3, a small notice was given in the Evening Telegraph regarding a planning application to build a bungalow in the back garden of a house in the Kiln Hill/Rake Top Avenue area of Higham.
Higham Parish Council apparently had reservations regarding flooding and the amount of traffic using Kiln Hill for access.
Surely professional people like architects/surveyors do not add notes to plans regarding serious matters like flooding if there are no danger of flooding.
Are local authorities not guilty of serious breaches of professional conduct, if they pass such plans, when people who have lived in the area for many years, and have seen what damage can be caused are completely ignored when such plans are discussed? Or are local authorities immune to such matters of pure common sense?
J CORNARD, Padiham Road, Burnley.
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