EDEN District Council's planners have been ranked among the top councils in the country. Eden's performance when deciding planning applications has been placed 17th among the 362 English councils. Eden says this shows a huge improvement as the service was considered poor and unlikely to improve by Best Value inspectors two years ago. Richard Turner, chairman of Eden's planning applications committee, said the results showed a widely spread rural council with a significant planning workload could be up among the best.
January 10, 2003 10:00
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