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A local authority that is not Southwark appeared to have made a complete hash of a planning matter.


I wont go into details but it would be nice to get some legal advice, or informed opinion.


This goes back a number of years and I have been fleeced by lawyers and have also looked to other avenues including the organisations who advise on such matters and some help from civic societies. Some recent correspondence has shocked me in what appears to be total incompetence and a reversal of what looked to be a legally sound decision.


This may be one for the Local Authority Omubudsman and I have also alerterted the solicitors who acted for me before (although no more money). The term fleeced is rather stronge but it was rather costly.


Happy to share more by PM.


I did try to involve local press, broadsheets, and also Private Eye (Rotten Boroughs) but perhaps it was not newsworthy enough. Not sure how else to 'whistle blow'.


The correspondence is short, at times beligerent, and most importantly on the public record, and speaks for itself. There has been plenty of correspondence with the planning autority, legal department, complaints procedures etc but the correspondence that has now come to light adds a new dimension on all of this.


I hope that I am not coming over as obsessed. Don't answer that.

My only comment from my experience with solicitors is that you nearly ( not 100%) get what you pay for.

The more local ones, that say they do a bit of everything, sometimes are not good enough for something complicated. You have to pay more.

My brother has just been to see a barrister for ?1500 for a few hours.He thinks it was money well spent.

Good luck.

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