A blog article from solicitor and planning lawyer Martin H Goodall LARTPI offers thoughts concerning shared services, concentrating on the case of Tunbridge Wells Borough Council where substantial costs are arising as they ‘extricate themselves from a partnership they had entered into in 2014 with two neighbouring authorities to set up a joint planning service.
The blog discusses planning performance issues and the potential impact of the recent Mid Kent Audit.
View the blog ‘Cost-cutting proves costly’
View a press report on Kent Online ‘Tunbridge Wells quits joint planning service – at a cost’
Access Mid Kent Planning Support Service in Maidstone
Access Swale Borough Council Planning Support Service
Access Tunbridge Wells planning service
Read the IHBC report on Shared Services by Fiona Newton
