This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Rejected petition Overturn South Tyneside Councils Refusal for Geordie Paws Planning Permission.
Planning permission for a small home run business has been refused based on assumptions rather than facts.
If they refuse our Appeal they will not only be putting two families out of work and will prove that they DO NOT support small businesses at all.
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It is a business of such nature that unless you spend more than 2 hours here you wouldn't be able to understand how well it is run. Therefore a 15 minute site visit done by South tyneside planning officer was not adequate enough to base a refusal on. The original application was altered by the planning officer to include Retail sales, this was done because they saw our clients collar and leads hanging on their pegs. So they assumed it was retail sales without getting facts.
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