This posting is so tangentially linked to the London 2012 Olympics that I hesitate to press the publish button.
Nevertheless, as Boris has been as entertainingly off the wall as ever and it does vaguely have something to with his planning powers I'm pushing on.
According to today's Evening Standard London's mayor has fallen foul of Islington council's planning department by building a summer house on the balcony of his north London home.
Now, I may not be a planning expert but even I would have picked up the phone to Islington's planning team to ask if building a strange wooden structure on top of a Grade-II listed balcony was within planning regulations.
Alternatively, if I was Boris I might have just strolled across my offices to have a chat with Giles Dolphin, the head of the GLA planning department, to get his advice before wasting my time and money while upsetting the neighbours.
Anyway, clearly I am not Boris and I am not the mayor of London (yet) but if I was overseeing revisions to the London Plan and playing a key role in over seeing Legacy development at the Stratford Olympics site I would probably get the all clear before building such a "monstrosity". (That's the Standard's unsourced neighbours speaking by the way).
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