THE letter in last week's Wiltshire Times regarding copy charges at the planning department of West Wiltshire District Council brought to mind a recent experience.
I, also, visited the department to view plans of a proposed development and decided to ask for copies to take away.
I, too, was astonished when the receptionist returned with my two sheets of A2 photocopy and requested £10.
I expressed amazement at the situation and made precisely the points listed by your previous correspondent.
A few weeks earlier I had ordered similar sheets but had been charged around half the price so I questioned the 100 per cent inflation rate. The reply indicated that a loss had been made in some other area and that it had been decided to raise the photocopying charges.
I wonder if architects/builders realise that their work is being used to make extortionate profits in this way.
When I needed updated versions of the same plans I managed to borrow them from an alternative source. A visit to a newsagents resulted in my own copies for a total of 40p.
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