Category: Certificate of Lawful Use

A Guernsey Certificate for Lawful Use (CLU) is an official document issued by the local government in Guernsey, an island in the English Channel with a population of 63,000.  This…

(This story is illustrative of the Planning services’ conduct when issuing a Certificate of Lawful Use) Landed at Guernsey airport at noon, I caught a cab to town: four miles…

19/12/2023: In this linked letter, the Review Board reiterates its stance regarding my complaint against the Development & Planning Authority (DPA). The Board confirms that my recent correspondence does not…

11/12/2023: In my letter dated 11 December 2023 to the Review Board Chairman, I conveyed my concerns about the handling of my complaint against the Development and Planning Authority (DPA):…

23/11/2023: In the linked letter from the Review Board you can see that the Review Board has reviewed the DPA’s reconsideration report dated 31 October 2023 and Mr Collings’ subsequent…

09/11/2023: In this linked document to the Review Board, I reiterated that the re-review the Civil Service had commissioned was defective in that it avoided the primary pathway (existing use…

06/11/2023: In this linked critique of the re-review’s findings, I highlight significant oversight in the review of my complaint against the DPA. They begin on page 7. Key issues include…

06/11/2023: In this linked document, I wrote to the Director, of Strategic Projects and Employee Relations, who had commissioned a re-review of the matter after the Administrative Review Board’s findings…

25/08/23: the linked document concerns a complaint by me, James Collings, against the Development and Planning Authority (DPA) of Guernsey regarding their conduct between 28 November 2019 and 11 February…

30/12/2021: In this linked document, you can see pages 1 to 17 of my 37-page complaint. I would direct the reader to paragraph (A) 6.b. on page 9, where path…