{...[WBW]}[19th February 1990]

[Redbook7:68-71][19900219:1936]{...[WBW]}[19th February 1990]

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I’ve just had the delightful news that our Planning Permission application has been refused. In fact, it was greedy: trying to up the value for sale (or make sale quicker), so deserved to fail. It is an unpleasant characteristic of mine to blame everyone else (vanity and fear, again); but in this case I did have misgivings about the morality of it. It seemed wrong to impose my inhibitions on [W], whose property also it* is, and whose enthusiastic idea it was in the first place, strongly supported by her employer, a Llan[...] solicitor, who wrote to us agreeing to act for us in planning matters, and who seemed to think it could hardly fail (Welsh Office policy), and by a local surveyor friend of his who did the plans. Not until the fees had been safely paid did anyone mention the possibility of problems with access and highways, which is what, nearly £1,000 later, we are going to be refused on.**

The morals of the story are[:]

(1) Don’t be greedy[;]

(2) Don’t leave such matters to your wife (which is what I expressly did, wanting to be free to concentrate on my own study)[;]

(3) Don’t trust the professionals – I have been let down far more often by professionals than by (for example) craftsmen.***

*[CH]

**{(In the end it was modified and passed)}

***{I’ve been let down by craftsmen, too.}

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