I've been in some classic planning committee meetings over the years. There was one where on a residential street a child was killed once a month due to too much traffic. On another, the cliffs at Rottingdean are eroding at 10meters per year. There are councillors that don't know what elevations...
Are you being a little sensitive, perhaps the use of explanation marks !! scares you a bit? Thought I was being informative rather than aggressive.
If I take out the 2 explanation marks at the start and end (done), is it less 'rage' for you? I can't read anything into it that is either angry...
Of course he's applied retrospectively.
He's gone through the local authority planning process retrospectively, a planning appeal to the secretary of state, that refusal decision challenged in the High Court, then that decision challenged in the appeal court.
This is way beyond the local...
Not just planning, presumably he didn't get any Building Regulations Approval on it either. So it is likely a breach of the Building Regulations as well as Planning law.