Worlds apart on council duties

Sir, – Fuss is being made of the fact that while a building warrant was obtained for the demolition of Halley’s Mill, planning permission was not.

The building control and planning departments of Dundee City Council occupy the same building and answer to the same chief executive. Yet events appear to indicate they operate from different planets.

You might suppose that the departments would bring matters of common concern to each other’s notice, or at the very least read each other’s application lists. That they seem not to do so suggests “a state of war” exists between the departments – although simple disinterest and incompetence might be to blame.

Bill McKenzie. Fintry Place, Broughty Ferry.