Vendeur : Crappy Old Books, Barry, Royaume-Uni
Paperback. Etat : Near Fine. Planning Law and Procedure (1977) by A. E. Telling Butterworths | ISBN: 0406665087 Condition: Good As sold by Crappy Old Books Some books promise adventure. This one promises procedure ? and then delivers it with the calm, unblinking authority of a 1970s Butterworths brick that has never once apologised for being serious. Planning Law and Procedure is not here to entertain you. It is here to explain, in sober detail, how land in Britain is permitted to become something else without the entire nation dissolving into a frenzy of unauthorised conservatories and emotionally charged objections about ?parking.? It is the hidden machinery behind every extension, shopfront, factory, bypass, and ?change of use,? lovingly rendered in the language of forms, notices, appeals, decisions, and the eternal battle between what people want and what policies allow. If you?ve ever looked at a planning application and thought, ?Surely this can?t be as complicated as it looks,? this book exists to gently place a hand on your shoulder and say: oh yes it can. And it will be. Repeatedly. With footnotes. Published in 1977 , it carries that particular period flavour: pre-internet, pre-PDF, pre-anyone being able to Google ?permitted development? at 11:45pm in a panic. This is planning in its purest form ? when knowledge was stored in heavy books, professionals had filing cabinets of precedent, and a phone call to the council felt like summoning an oracle. The joy here (yes, there is joy, if you?re the right kind of person) is the sheer solidity of it all. Planning is where dreams go to be translated into diagrammatic reality: site boundaries, conditions, committee reports, enforcement, policy interpretation, and the strange theatre of public consultation. This book treats that world with seriousness and structure ? the kind that makes you appreciate why planning officers develop a thousand-yard stare and why the phrase ?material consideration? can end a conversation instantly. It?s also quietly fascinating as a time capsule. Planning law evolves. Guidance changes. Whole frameworks get replaced. So reading a 1977 planning manual is like opening a carefully labelled drawer in the national attic: you can see how the system thought about land, development, rights, and control at that time. If you?re into the history of bureaucracy (or you simply enjoy knowing why everything is the way it is), it?s catnip. Who is it for? The planning nerd. The local history sleuth. The property obsessives. The person who once said, ?I?ll just submit a quick application,? and then woke up three months later surrounded by correspondence. The reader who finds comfort in the idea that, somewhere, there is a process. A proper process. With steps. This copy is Good , meaning it?s been used, but it?s still sturdy ? which is frankly ideal for a Butterworths volume. These books were made to survive. They were built for desks, not coffee tables. They are the literary equivalent of an industrial stapler. From Crappy Old Books : because not everyone wants dragons and distant galaxies. Some of us want the thrilling spectacle of a correctly served notice, an appeal procedure, and the terrifying sentence: ?Subject to conditions.? N° de réf. du vendeur 5671
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Vendeur : The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, Royaume-Uni
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Vendeur : WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Royaume-Uni
paperback. Etat : Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. N° de réf. du vendeur rev8540479237
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