Saturday, 31 May 2014

Are the Planners using Vogon Tatics


This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council,’ the voice continued. ‘As you will no doubt be aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system, and regrettably your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition. The process will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank you.’

‘There’s no point acting all surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display in your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for fifty of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now.’

‘What do you mean you’ve never been to Alpha Centauri? For heaven’s sake mankind, it’s only four light years away you know. I’m sorry, but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs that’s your own lookout.

Tuesday, 27 May 2014

Plans back for Permit

Seems the Neighbour Notifications have been sent out to a chosen few.

Check but, they seen to have been written on the 12th May, but franked 22nd May.
Received 24th May the Bank Holiday, objections by 28th May

This cannot be right


NWLDC or North West District Council, Planning department have a new practice of sending out Neighbour Notification Letters very late.
This is so you have no time to get any objections to them within a deadline.
So letters dated 14th May, Posted or Franked 22nd May, delivered 24th May, Objections date by the 28th May, 26th May was bank Holiday
Notifications are sent out late and not on any lamp posts anywhere

I looked at a big development, they can't I thought be doing this for a huge scheme of houses, yes they are.

Measham is in the Heart of the National Forest, the meetings about a 450 housing development have been well attended and very verbal

The plans are now in a Committee Meeting again on the 10th of June, no one knows

The main key to this development is the fact its directly in the field where HS2 goes through, so if they build they will need to demolish at least a third, the rest will need compensation.


The project has been very quite for a year, details hard to come by.

How has it been funded, where the money came from for the consultations and who are the stake holders?

There was a blog that ran out of steam because it went low key and information was hard to come by, but Neighbour Notifications sent out using same principles, and in committee 2 days before a parish meeting can be organised.

Some thing not right


Can a County Council sit on its own Development Committee and pass it's own plan?