From: jethro_uk@hotmailbin.com 
  
 On Mon, 08 Sep 2025 10:59:57 +0100, Roland Perry wrote: 
  
 > In message <109m84c$6u3c$1@dont-email.me>, at 10:37:15 on Mon, 8 Sep 
 > 2025, 
 > GB  remarked: 
 >> [quoted text muted] 
 > 
 > Near where I live is a green-field site with planning permission for 
 > five or six detached homes. Two previous developers have thrown in the 
 > towel, not having got beyond the foundations (but no roads). At the 
 > latest asking price for the land, nobody could build a house and make 
 > any profit at all. 
 > So nobody is. 
  
 Permission should have an expiry date, and come with a penalty for not 
 being executed. 
  
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