The Planning Officers

Lift the roof off the Town Hall and take a wry look inside. Anna Maria Aitcheson and Dirc Starkey are so absorbed in their careers and each other that they never consider the community they are employed to serve. Noel Gosling is employed, officially, to ensure that they perform to professional standards. His real job is to ensure that the many complaints about them get no further. Follow them all through one stormy day, which begins with glory beckoning, if they can only bundle one insignificant citizen out of the way first...