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Sunday 23 September 2018

A FAIRY TALE IN RBKC

Dear Dame


Once upon a time there was a forbidding Fortress in Hornton Street, yet the portcullis stayed mostly open and the local peasants could get in at will. 
GO AWAY, YOU 'ORRIBLE RESIDENT
In comes an evil Lord of Darkness and up goes the drawbridge. 
This peasant has noticed some very unpleasant changes, particularly in the planning department of the Fortress. 
Once one could view plans and applications enlarged and in detail spread out on the viewing tables with the aid of two planning officers; this service has vanished. 
Equally, once where one could consult a bona fide planning officer on planning matters. Now there is a wait of an hour and a half  and a meeting in a cubicle with a jack of all trades expected to give advice on anything and everything from parking permits to social housing and Council Tax.

Magically also telephone connections to individual planning officers have disappeared in a puff of smoke. 

If you try to speak to one of the officers via the planning line  only applicants or their agents will be put through to the case officers. 
How can that be??? 
After all it' the peasants that bankroll the whole Council operation.
Not only are the peasants kept away from the premises as much as possible, and officers remain incommunicado, but even Freedom of Information rights are trampled upon and ignored. This must not continue.

No doubt the evil Lord of Darkness is casting an eye around to acquire a cloak of total invisibility. Seeing this about to happen, the peasants are up in arms and revolting.

Unless conditions at the Fortress change, there will be no happy ever after for the erstwhile "public servants" who have become "public tyrants".

Signed by a revolting peasant
(Until further notice The End)

7 comments:

  1. We are starting to learn about dizzy's Leadership style

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  2. "It's the peasants that bankroll the whole Council operation" Sadly, I fear that's not the case. A large part of the Council's money comes from central government and this is topped up by property developers. He who pays the piper calls the tune.

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    1. And where do you think the central government's money comes from? There's no magic money tree - the money comes from taxes also paid by the peasants!

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  3. Some REALLY simple people seem to read this blog

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    1. There is no reason to be rude about Cllr Palmer-he maybe simple but it's not his fault.

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  4. Anon- 08.30? SIMPLE, in what sense of the word? Mentally simple? If yes, dream on - very much like Dr Quirk is doing. He should he instrumental in bringing in proper governance. But, very much like his book - Imagining...;, that's all what he is doing: living in a dreamland, imaging how is should be, rather than implementing what he preaches. Sad, but true.

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