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| Community Activist |
Dear Dame,
You and I have long spoken of the need for a new borough-wide plan ( with a number of community consultation planning weekends/meetings) clearly delineating where development can and cannot happen and what would be permissible.
The key is the identification of sensible development opportunities instead of always going for what appears to be low hanging fruit and fast short-term commercial gain.
This would prevent the need to fight the highly distressing planning applications of avaricious developers on sites such as the Kensington Odeon and the Holiday Inn (which has proposed densities closer to those in Tsim Tsa Choi in Hong Kong than Kensington)
Such proposals are unwanted and inappropriate.
I would also like to add that Mr. Stallwood took great pleasure in telling the heavies outside the first council meeting after Grenfell that I couldn’t come into the chamber to watch proceedings.
I asked him to tell me where in the council statutes it said that residents couldn’t attend meetings and he told me this one was just for Grenfell residents ( I said I would stand down if necessary ) but he still blocked me and I managed to find my way in through another route.
Council officers work for us and should work with us - not constantly try to frustrate our requests
Guy Oliver .
Smallwood lacks the experience and grip to run a major planning department.
ReplyDeleteHe shouted at me for asking why documents were 'missing in action.'
The proposal from Guy Oliver is a good one. Consultation in action. (Cllr Weale: please note).
ReplyDeleteIt needs a champion Councillor to make it happen. The Chairman of the Planning Committee, Cllr Marshall, is the right person. The Dame should write to Cllr Marshall and invite him to take up this important initiative.
Dream on, dear 'Resident'. RBKC are NOT interested in what the residents have to say about their environment. They are ONLY interested in personal and perhaps even Corporate short term gain, because as said elsewhere, Councillors come and go - so make the hay whilst you can - with impunity.
ReplyDeleteRBKC Councillors and many of their officers seem to think they are running some small state under a dictatorship, miraculously the Conservative party managed to stay in control of the council even after Grenfell, yet all they have done differently this time is pretend to listen then just lie through their back teeth and continue treating us all as morons one hopes they get kicked out next time round
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