On July 24 there is a full council meeting. At the meeting, the New Local Plan will be brought forward for adoption.
As Cllr Lari says: "This would be the one and only chance for residents to come and make representation before all councillors on the most consequential document influencing local planning decisions"
Cllr Lari goes on to say, "but we were also coincidentally told this week that residents cannot speak at this particular meeting unless they are under 18 because somebody unknown had made a decision (unconsulted) that normal public speaking did not apply to this particular meeting.
The councillor has written to the mayor with the perfectly sound suggestion that whilst the views of those under 18 should be listened to the subject is one important to all ages.
Dear Stakeholder
New Local Plan Review: Receipt of the Inspector’s ReportThe Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012The Council has been undertaking a New Local Plan Review (NLPR) since late 2020. As part of this process the Council submitted its “NLPR Publication (Regulation 19) document” to the Secretary of State for examination on 8 February 2023. The examination hearing sessions were held between 20 June and 20 July 2023.On 5 July 2024 the Council received the Inspector’s Report into the NLPR examination. The Inspector has found the NLPR to be “sound” subject to a number of “Main Modifications”. These have been appended to her report.For completeness, the Council has made Additional Modifications to correct typographical errors and update factual information. These do not affect the soundness of the NLPR.Printed copies of the following documents are available for reference in local libraries as well as the customer service centre at Kensington Town Hall.
- the NLPR Publication (Regulation 19) document;
- the Inspector’s Report, including the appendix setting out the Main Modifications necessary to make it sound; and
- a table setting out the Council’s Additional Modifications.
These documents can also be viewed on the examination website.The next step is for the NLPR to be considered for adoption at a Full Council meeting later this month. Once adopted the NLPR will form part of the Council’s development plan to determine planning applications and will be known as the Local Plan 2024. Until then the NLPR, along with the Main Modifications, will be given significant weight in determining planning applications.Please contact the planning policy team at planningpolicy@rbkc.gov.uk if you have any further queries.Kind regards,Preeti Gulati TyagiPlanning Policy Team Leader
Tyagi is an old English name? Presumably the planning letter is not a spoof. But if it is genuine, then Cllr Lari is clearly growing up, following the EDC extinction, and is making sensible observations. He needs to prod the useless Cllr Campbell more severely. She is a menace.
ReplyDeleteNow that the "EDC extinction" is almost complete, it is to be hoped that the Labour Party will be an effective opposition to the Tories. Lari has impressed me with the way that he has highlighted this matter.
DeleteEDC will not become extinct whilst Cllr.Lari still has influence in the Labour Group. He was long her principle enforcer and played Beria to her Stalin. It was he who removed all opposition and talent from the group ( including Monica Press ) and replaced them with the muppets who now sit with him on the Labour benches .
DeleteHis letter may be a good one and certainly demonstrates that he has talents but this in no way excuses his leading role in destroying the, one time highly effective, Labour opposition
I agree. "EDC extinction" is not complete until she resigns her seat on the Council. She took us all for fools by telling us she was not Marxist maintaining that she was "cuddly" instead. Her claim that " My Socialism is Corbyn's Socialism" exposed her true Marxist thinking.
DeleteLari may well be dangerous. I know that in collusion with EDC he "shafted" Press, Henderson, Healey and Nail so that the hard left could shore up the position for EDC's parliamentary candidacy. They did not see the clever, very brilliant, Starmer coming with an ace to play against EDC. I know that EDC retaliated by ripping in to Starmer but her racist conduct towards a Black politician, and her repeated excursions in to antisemitism make her unsuitable to take Labour's Red Flag.
How does Labour see off EDC's supporters in its ranks? Please tell us? They will always be dangerous and jockeying for power.
There is no future in Dent Coadism!
DeleteSo how do we eradicate it In Kensington and Bayswater?
How do we bring Fabian values back to Kensington and Bayswater?
We must secure a bright, moderate, no- marxist, "Democratic Socialist" future where the interests of no one egotistical person will ever outrank the one, body politic again.
We could start by asking Nail & Henderson and perhaps Press and Atkinson to consider coming back as Council candidates. This would start to bring some seriousness and experience back to the opposition benches
DeleteSimmons not Lari is the one who's joined at the hip to EDC. Simmons has also picked up EDC's awful bighead ego and knack for causing widespread division amongst locals too.
DeleteThe path to "EDC extinction" is bringing back serious, sensible, Labour people to serve on the Council. Henderson, Press, Nail and Atkinson would be very suitable and keep Marxist and Trotskite tendencies at bay.
DeleteObviously, Simmonds is a major part of the problem.
DeleteThe Party will have to make she is shafted.
You should all seek help. You’re rambling on about EDC into your echo chamber on a sparsely read blog post about which has nothing to do with her. You suckers are demented…
DeleteCouncillor Simmonds at 13:02 proving the points made by 10:18 and 12:19. Look how defensive of EDC she gets for starters.
DeleteConsultation is a spurious concept.
ReplyDeleteLocal Authorities often comply with a statutory duty to consult the public on a number of issues. In these circumstances, "consultation" is obligatory. However, there is no corresponding duty on any Council to heed what is said and to modify new or existing policy proposals. The question around many statutory consultations is when does consultation become notification.
It is nothing but window dressing for the Council to publish and disseminate the National Local Plan Review to those who are interested. The Truth is it is a foregone conclusion that the Council will adopt the plan with the recommended modifications, and factual amendments.
The Council is not at all interested in what anyone has to say so about the NLPR so what is the point in allowing people to speak at the meeting later this month.
The authoritarian and dictatorial practices of the Royal Borough's former TMO in relation to the way policy was formulated and implemented with associated practices appears to have found its way in to the Council. I suspect that, in reality, it was always thus in K&C.
Policy and Practices should not be a top down process cast in stone. All of the Council's policies, including its National Local Policy Review, should be part of a going debate. Purposeful policies and best practice comes from an exchange of ideas, points of views, where all of those participating in the process adjust amongst themselves. Policy Practitioners call this process "Partisan Mutual Adjustment'; where all those involved adapt amongst themselves. It is complacent for the Council to say that Planning Inspector approves the NLPR subject to modification , so, we will implement it and that is now the end of that!
One would expect that Dizzy Lizzie et al would have learnt from the Grenfell Tragedy that the Council's approach should be more progressive. The Grenfell Action Group had many purposeful things about refurbishment proposals but inadequate and useless officials at the TMO knew best. If only the TMO had listened honestly to Grenfell residents things may well have been different.
Is that the same TMO panel that Emma Dent Coad sat on as a representative of the Council.
DeleteI went to a packed 'Consultation' meeting in the Great Hall on WEIR (Western Environmental Improvement Road) for those with long memories. The Dept of Transport representative said 'The first thing you have to understand is that consultation is not negotiation'. So remember that.
ReplyDeleteKen Livingstone's comment on the "Consultation" when he wanted to extend the congestion charge in to the Western Charging Zone was "it is not a referendum." Remember that too.
DeleteOn transportation, South Kensington tube station plans are to be ‘value engineered’
Deletehttps://www.building.co.uk/news/controversial-south-kensington-tube-station-plans-to-be-value-engineered/5130468.article
One of Lari's acolytes is the one and only Heathcote Ruthven, the oaf that was disrupting Joe Powells Victory speech. Go figure.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the Kensington & Bayswater Labour Party going to about Lari. It seems as though he is not on message with Keir and is dancing to EDC's Corbynistic/ Trotskyite tune.
DeleteDid you know that during the election, EDC referred to the poor housing in North Kensington - mould, dampness, and sub-standard accommodation- there is nothing wrong with being indignant about that! She surpassed herself and went a stage further saying that she was able to represent the people of North Ken because she was "one of them" on account of her experiences of poor housing.
ReplyDeleteThis is the "one" who claimed she was "one of them" meaning "royalty" when she slagged off Prince Harry.
How did the Labour group welcome 2 new Labour MP's representing the Borough at the Full Council meeting ? Did any of them rise to the occasion?
ReplyDeleteI hear that some elements of the Labour Group are on message with Emma Dent Coad. Those ones did not rise to the occasion.
DeleteIf Press, Henderson, Nail and Healey were all still serving as Labour Councillors, the "welcome" to two new Labour MP's would have been generous and fulsome.
ReplyDeleteThis is the first time that Chelsea has been represented by a Labour man. Well done to Ben Coleman.
Congratulations to Joe Powell for succeeding in such a toxic campaign of vitriol and nastiness.
Kensington and Bayswater CLP is having trouble get rid of the Corbynite faction in its ranks. Starmer shafted Corbyn and suspended his band of merry free radicals in parliament just days in to his premiership.
ReplyDeleteCredit to Starmer. He is very efficient at sidelining and seeing off those who will not toe the line. Kensington and Bayswater CLP should do the same. When Emma took over the CLP she wanted everyone toeing the hard left line. She orchestrated the seeing off of moderate councillors. It is now time for the new management to complete its post election purge and clear out the undesirables.
DeleteThe "undesirables" need to suffer a shafting of searing and blistering magnitude for all the trouble they have caused.
DeleteNothing for it other than a blistering and searing shafting.
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