Bo Jo Don't Need No Stinkin' Planning Permission

[collateral]

Wrong!

Dunno how he thought he'd get away with that one...

A relative has just had planning turned down (although he put in something he knew would get turned down as a way to demonstrate he has made amends with the redesign) on something which wouldn't be visible to anyone else unless they had a telescope...and were in a helicopter!

Surprised (or am I...) no-ones posted this already - remember the days when Livingstone couldn't sneeze without half of pistonheads baying for his head on a stick?

[EDLT]

I'm amazed at what passes for an "eyesore" these days, its not like he parked a Gwizz up there.

[Frederick]

The Grauniad said:

A spokesman for the Johnson said

Freudian slip?

[oldbanger]

Man puts shed on balcony, not having a garden to put it in.
Man gets told to take it down by officials, as sheds need planning permission in his area/type of accommodation
Man takes it down asap instead of bhing/appealing to the council/throwing his toys out of the cot
And this is news?

[loltolhurst]

EDLT said:

I'm amazed at what passes for an "eyesore" these days, its not like he parked a Gwizz up there.

it doesnt exactely blend in though!

[ypauly]

collateral said:

Surprised (or am I...) no-ones posted this already - remember the days when Livingstone couldn't sneeze without half of pistonheads baying for his head on a stick?

yes but boris took it down immediatly


red ken would have blamed the tories/thatcher first then claimed it was a triumph for the working man and if that didn't work he would have altered planning laws.

[Mr POD]

ypauly said:

collateral said:

Surprised (or am I...) no-ones posted this already - remember the days when Livingstone couldn't sneeze without half of pistonheads baying for his head on a stick?

yes but boris took it down immediatly


red ken would have blamed the tories/thatcher first then claimed it was a triumph for the working man and if that didn't work he would have altered planning laws.

Someone may find that their promising career in Planning turns out not to be. If I was Boris I'd put a marker on the person's file and make sure that all the stty jobs came thier way.

[Colonial]

Mr POD said:

ypauly said:

collateral said:

Surprised (or am I...) no-ones posted this already - remember the days when Livingstone couldn't sneeze without half of pistonheads baying for his head on a stick?

yes but boris took it down immediatly


red ken would have blamed the tories/thatcher first then claimed it was a triumph for the working man and if that didn't work he would have altered planning laws.

Someone may find that their promising career in Planning turns out not to be. If I was Boris I'd put a marker on the person's file and make sure that all the stty jobs came thier way.

And I'm sure if scumstone had done that you would all be baying (rightly) for his blood.

Funny how bias works isn't it?

[prand]

I'm not sure what the point is here. He's sorted it. Stupid to put it up in the first place and hope that it might go unnoticed, but what's the fuss?

And putting a shed up on your balcony is hardly in the same league as doing deals with dodgy banana republic dictators is it?

[mattviatura]

collateral said:

Wrong!

Please don't do that.

Anyone looking at my history will now think I've deliberately looked at the Guardian

[OnTheOverrun]

Colonial said:

Mr POD said:

ypauly said:

collateral said:

Surprised (or am I...) no-ones posted this already - remember the days when Livingstone couldn't sneeze without half of pistonheads baying for his head on a stick?

yes but boris took it down immediatly


red ken would have blamed the tories/thatcher first then claimed it was a triumph for the working man and if that didn't work he would have altered planning laws.

Someone may find that their promising career in Planning turns out not to be. If I was Boris I'd put a marker on the person's file and make sure that all the stty jobs came thier way.

And I'm sure if scumstone had done that you would all be baying (rightly) for his blood.

Funny how bias works isn't it?

Yep. Bias like getting all enraged about a shed that was immediately taken down when it became apparent he was in the wrong compared to Livingstones track record like paying his live-in lover £125k a year as a glorified secretary from tax-payers funds?

No comparison unless you are biased to begin with.

[collateral]

oldbanger said:

Man puts shed on balcony, not having a garden to put it in.
Man gets told to take it down by officials, as sheds need planning permission in his area/type of accommodation
Man takes it down asap instead of bhing/appealing to the council/throwing his toys out of the cot
And this is news?

It's more the fact he either thought he would get away with it or wasn't up to speed on the actual laws

[grumbledoak]

Well fk me sideways with a prize winning leek!

An anti-Boris editorial in the grauniad? Shome mishtake, shirley?

And, I'd echo the request not to hide the link destination, please. I wouldn't have bothered if I'd spotted it.

[nogginthenog]

collateral said:

oldbanger said:

Man puts shed on balcony, not having a garden to put it in.
Man gets told to take it down by officials, as sheds need planning permission in his area/type of accommodation
Man takes it down asap instead of bhing/appealing to the council/throwing his toys out of the cot
And this is news?

It's more the fact he either thought he would get away with it or wasn't up to speed on the actual laws

it's more a question of whether someone so ignorant of the laws of planning and taste should be running our fine capital city.....

[collateral]

RE the source, I linked to the site with the most in-depth write up I could find on Google news.

Some of you lot remind me of those Yanks who think CNN is a communist plot but Fox News are an unquestionably fine and upstanding news organisation!

[s2art]

nogginthenog said:

collateral said:

oldbanger said:

Man puts shed on balcony, not having a garden to put it in.
Man gets told to take it down by officials, as sheds need planning permission in his area/type of accommodation
Man takes it down asap instead of bhing/appealing to the council/throwing his toys out of the cot
And this is news?

It's more the fact he either thought he would get away with it or wasn't up to speed on the actual laws

it's more a question of whether someone so ignorant of the laws of planning and taste should be running our fine capital city.....

Well, thats a point. But even if Boris was caught raping lots of nuns and trying to reintroduce the third Reich he would STILL be infinitely preferable to Livingstone.

[tempus]

If it was a freestanding garden shed then I don`t see that it contravenes the planning laws as it is not attached to the building and does not need any approval.

[SJobson]

grumbledoak said:

And, I'd echo the request not to hide the link destination, please. I wouldn't have bothered if I'd spotted it.

? It's not hidden. Roll your mouse over it and look at the bottom of your browser before clicking

Please, more people shorten URLs in future.

[grumbledoak]

SJobson said:

Hands toothless grandmother an egg.

I know you can, I just didn't this time. Still, a few more pennies in advertising revenue to that stty little rag. Should go some way towards Ken/George/Polly's next column.

[FourWheelDrift]

tempus said:

If it was a freestanding garden shed then I don`t see that it contravenes the planning laws as it is not attached to the building and does not need any approval.

In any normal place, but this is Islington.