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If approval to the Holiday Inn application is given it will ride a coach and horses through the leader's claim the council now listens to residents.
To be serious in her claim she can start by throwing out the ludicrous rule residents have just a few minutes to make their points: the restriction is a travesty of justice and an insult to the very people who put them in power.
The long-term impact this monstrous development will have on our lives means, at the very least, residents opposing the plan have at least fifteen minutes to articulate their views.
So come on....Cllr Campbell....ignore our employee..Mr Stallwood and tell him that residents need 15 MINUTES
Three cheers for the Dame!
ReplyDelete"Well said kind Dame. Smaller developments than this have recently been granted 10 minutes… this one should receive a minimum of 12."
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know what the council offiers are reconnending to the planing comnittee?
ReplyDeleteStallwood has a very inflated self opinion. These officers need to remember that none of them live in the Borough so their interests are unaligned with those of residents...oh, and yes, WE PAY THEIR WAGES AND FAT PENSIONS
ReplyDeleteLocal democracy means a reasonable amount of time for the objectors to make their case, Six minutes is not a reasonable amount of time.
ReplyDeleteWe would also like to know is this to be the only item on the agenda on 27 September or is it one among the usual 30 or 40 planning applications? We feel that such an enormously important application, on which so very many people wish to comment, should have its own dedicated planning committee meeting.
ReplyDeletei agree totally
Deleteoh, this is just a clumsy attempt to bury this important item in a mountain of small items, so that it could be just glanced over... Approved - job done - move on.. Must resist and be more vocal
ReplyDeletePre meeting activity is very important to impress on the Councillors on the Planning Committee what the strength of public opinion is. Press coverage a few days before the meeting is always powerful. And a few celebrity names grabs the attention of the socially ambitious Councillors. Ranged against residents are the brown envelopes and the "understandings" between developers, Officers and Councillors in smoke filled rooms and corridors.
ReplyDeleteAnd residents need to remember that the Tory Chairman meets with the Tory Councillors before the meeting to decide how they will vote...
Whether residents have 3 minutes, 5 minutes or 10 minutes to make their objections is not very relevant. It is all window dressing and in the revealing words of Cllr Weale, "we listen but we do not hear". This is the mantra of any ruling Party that has been in power for more than 60 years.
Does the Dame know who the meeting Chairman is?
Planning Laws are already weighted in favour of developers. WHAT CAN BE THE JUSTIFICATION FOR THIS ??? Add to this fact that would-be developers can have extensive pre-application advice which is not even published after the application has gone live, WHERE IS THE JUSTICE IN THAT ??? Residents are not asking for preferential rights, but we demand an equal playing field.
ReplyDeletewhat are you smoking darling 11.10?
DeleteWell said 11:10 - what is evident is that there is no equal playing field. Whose best interest is served by the Planning Department? The Dame is right - was there not meant to be a change in culture at the Council post Grenfell?
ReplyDeleteWell you can blame the Kensington and Chelsea electorate for that. They had their chance to vote for change in May and they didn't! They have got what they voted for and so that is what they deserve!
DeleteThe election result in May was a revelation. Once again the living dead voted on autopilot to return the Tories - a behaviour burned into their DNA at birth. This is a rallying call for all the protest groups, interest groups and Blogs like the Hornet and This Is North Kensington to redouble their efforts to preserve democracy in the Royal Borough.
DeleteDear Amused,(13:07)
ReplyDeleteSadly one knows the reality of local planning. What would be the alternative to saying something? Do nothing? Please peruse.
Re: smoking: conditions are currently sad enough to make anyone want to pick up the filthy weed.
The Committee meeting is the event to focus the attention on the decision. Pressure needs to applied around the Committee (via the press, demonstrations, via the Hornet website, disrupting Council meetings, petitions, engaging celebrities). It is 95% pointless trying to influence the decision inside the Planning Meeting. The reptiles have already stitched things up
DeleteThe planning committee guidance states that residents groups can be invited to pre application talks. No-one invited a residents group to the meetings
ReplyDeleteSecondly one letter (one page long) has been released regarding one issue) on pre application advice. There are clearly others, yet they have not been released
The planning dept is as opaque and it was prior to Grenfell, and is even more opaque under the slippery Stallwood than under Bore
Shame on the planning department and shame on the Council for still not holding this planning department to account.
Apologies for posting OT comment but has anyone seen Shaun Bailey, would be Tory mayor, featured in the standard today? Trying to smear EDC again.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/wouldbe-tory-mayor-shaun-bailey-only-my-zero-tolerance-approach-can-halt-london-crimewave-a3932761.html
Are you smoking something 19.58?
DeleteIt was EDC who called Bailey a "ghetto boy". There is bad blood between these two and EDC hates Bailey with a passion that only a woman has.
I quit smoking decades ago 10:24.
DeleteIf this ludicrous proposal gets passed the planning Committee,something certainly stinks!
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