February's Conundrum - how flexible is 'flexible'?

This month's conundrum from our e-bulletin Future Perfect? deals with the possibility of extending planning permisisons and reads as follows...

The provisions introducted in October 2009 providing a simplified procedure for applying to extend the time period for implementing a planning permission also allows you to extend the time period for submitting reserved matters. What though if you have been able to split an outline consent into clear phases, each with its own reserved matters? It looks as though submitting reserved matters for just one of those phases means you will have tied yourself to the given time constraints and cannot extend in relation to the remaining phases. Have readers found a way to deal with this?

Comments

[Bish Bosh]

yeah, just start again.