Bonn Square
From:
Ann Furtado
Date:
2007 Dec 21 11:02 UTC
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If only one had all the time in the world to trawl through the various
committees and their agendas/minutes buried deep in the council website! Was
the area committee rejection before or after the Stragic Development Control
Committee meeting which is what I was referring to? (before I suspect) At the
SDCC meeting, Colin Cook kindly told me that 'the 519 space application which
was entirely on Oxpens field was withdrawn by the applicants. The second 362
space application which is on the coach park with a small section, (a quarter
to one third of the space), on the field at the back of the ice rink was
approved by 7 votes to 2. The application may be called in to full council in
which case the decision will be put on hold until a council meeting in
January.' Sid Phelps subsequently told me that an attempt to call the decision
in to the full council failed on a technicality.
I should jolly well think the local residents were against it and I'm glad to
hear they objected, I spoke to some of them about it.
My point is, that just like that beautiful tree, when it's gone, it's gone and
it is so difficult to stop these decisions being taken, assuming that you've
managed to find out about the issue in the first place! Given how wet that
field is, I can't imagine what kind of state it will be in once people have
finished driving all over it!
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