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Council Planners ride roughshod over residents views AGAIN
December 17, 2009 12:00 PM
The Council in its eagerness to push through the development at 282-286 Goldhawk Road by property firm Places For People, had scheduled a Planning meeting when the consultation period had not even closed.
The developers want to build 66 housing units, in 3 and 4 storey buildings between Ashchurch Park Villas and Ashchurch Grove.
"Quite apart from the merits of the application, it simply reflects a total disregard by the Tory Council for proper procedure as well as riding roughshod over the legitimate views of local residents" said Henrietta Bewley, Chair of H&F Lib Dems.
Protesters claim that well over 300 signatures had been gathered of local residents and sent to the Council about the development at 282-286 Goldhawk Road, but the Council claims it only received 21 objections. However it has admitted that its notices were sent out with discrepancies in the closing dates for the consultation.
"It is totally unacceptable that the Planning Applications Committee meeting is being rushed into giving its consent to this development put forward by Council officers even before the consultation period has expired" says Merlene Emerson, Liberal Democrat Parliamentary spokeswoman.
Merlene continued: "This item should have been withdrawn from the 16 December PAC meeting, and rescheduled to next year, when the objections that are still flowing in can be properly evaluated and considered."
Unfortunately, this was not the case as the Council proceeded with this agenda item at the 16 Dec meeting and gave the development the go ahead. It would appear that our Council has not learnt any lessons from an earlier planning decision permitting destruction of the Goldhawk Industrial Estate being called in by the Secretary of State.
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