The authority said improvements are being made
Planning staff were left “ill-equipped, weren’t properly directed” and had “no sense of vision or focus”, a council leader has admitted. West Northamptonshire Council’s leader Cllr Jonathan Nunn said some staff left its planning services during an interim period before it was formally established in April 2021 and in the wake of it.
READ MORE: Council's planning service has no way of tracking developer contributions worth millions of pounds, report finds “You’ll see more peer reviews, more audit reports and that’s not because we are trying to shy away from bad news, that’s because we are trying to find bad news and solve it,” he said.
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