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[Erik Wilkinson]

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Press Release: Monday 4 February 2013

Council planners feature in BBC documentary

Stroud District Council's planning officers will be under the microscope in
the BBC documentary series 'The Planners', which airs on BBC2 over the next
few weeks, giving a behind the scenes insight into how they make important
decisions affecting the lives of local people. The series runs at 8pm on
Thursdays and this week's episode will be the first to feature the work of
the district's planners and the councillor's who make up the council's
planning committee.

Phill Skill, head of planning for Stroud District Council said:

'The film crew followed us during the wet summer of 2012 to get the inside
track on how planners work. Whether it's a household extension or a wind
farm we're looking at, the nature of what we do will often put us in the
headlines. The controversial decisions we are asked to make mean that people
tend to have strong opinions about us, so it was a great to get the
opportunity to show what really goes on behind the scenes and highlight some
of the issues we face .'

Over the next few weeks viewers will get to see what goes on behind the
scenes as well as seeing planners work on number of different applications.
The first application that will feature in this Thursday's episode is the
Lemon Fields application for half a dozen houses in the heart of the town of
Minchinhampton. As the eight-part series progresses, the documentary will
cover an application for a new wedding venue at Elmore Court, a 'boys and
their toys' story at Brimscombe involving a resident with a knack for
maintaining large trucks, and in the last episode, the highly controversial
application for four wind-turbines in the Berkeley Vale, dismissed by
Government inspectors last month.

Councillor Dennis Andrewartha, executive member for planning for Stroud
District Council, said:

'Making planning decisions is an unenviable job. Applications invariably
have supporters and objectors, so we'll always end up upsetting someone.
Hopefully this documentary will highlight the complex issues our planners
and councillors face and help demystify the process.'


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