My Council has just introduced a policy of "discretionary charges" (*) for obtaining copies of Planning and Building Control Documents. Does anyone have any comparative examples, or any other comments as to legality etc?
I need to try one or two methods that have been free previously, and see what happens with all the records available by online searches - since my Council has added oodles of historic and building control information docs, as I have posted previously. I can now eg do most of the Local Searches on the website.
I've slugged this post in Google for now to avoid too many casual inquisitive eyes.
That looks rather expensive if you need a lot of stuff.
(*) Discretion presumably means they have the discretion to charge me (under the General Power of Competence?), and there is nothing I can do about it . Rather after "eligible" in "you are eligible to pay this fee / receive this Parking Ticket" etc.