a retired police officer has described a council’s planning process as “madness” after a two-year battle for permission.
Former Essex Police detective superintendent Ivan Dibley spent two years trying to get his plans passed for a small parcel of land in Tollesbury High Street.
In the end, he won on appeal through the Planning Inspectorate.
A council spokesman said: “Whilst the Inspector did not come to the same conclusions as the council it was not considered that our decision was unreasonable behaviour.”
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