Wednesday, July 05, 2006

HOW MUCH MORE TIME WILL IT TAKE?

Evening Post editorial - 5 July 2006

It's the garage with a kitchen that cost the city's chief executive his job and goodness knows how many valuable hours of council time. Yet Swansea's most talked-about planning issue has still not been resolved.

Last week planning officers recommended that Mr Thorogood be given retrospective permission provided the garage was not used for commercial purposes.

But yesterday, members of the planning committee refused to rubber stamp the recommendations and instead voted to see the garage for themselves first.

Whatever they decide will have a knock-on effect on many other Gower planning applications so it is important that they get it right - and quickly.