| Topic: | Re:Minutes Composite (Unofficial) for The Inspectorate - Planning Dept's disgrace | |
| Posted by: | Judy Jaafar | |
| Date/Time: | 13/04/13 00:45:00 |
| I have contacted Ealing Council more than once about the difference between the hand-written minutes taken by the official clerk on the eveing of the Planning Committee Meeting, and the published minutes and Decision Notification, and the reasons for refusal cited therein. I have been fobbed off with illogical and easily challenged nonsense. One reply from the Planning Department officer defending the case on the night mentioned that several reasons for refusal can be given by the councillors, but what was important was "the final decision". I have politely enquired who exactly makes that final decision - the councillors (as it should be) or the planning department who actually supported this over-development and issued the refusal notice? There was also a remark in one email that "it had been agreed" about something - I asked exactly who had made this agreement that was not in the minutes or anywhere else. I have not had any satisfactory responses to these two very important questions, and it leaves us with the impression that whatever the Planning Committee decides, people within the Planning Department will influence, edit and nuance any documents put into the public domain in a way that suits the developer whom they are supporting. The whole refusal notice has been written in such a way as to give the impression that the application was refused solely on Conservation Area grounds, with no reference whatsoever to the councillors' stated reasons, and recorded in the minutes, that the proposed development would be overbearing to, and have a negative impact on the neighbouring property, i.e. my house. This has just completley disappeared from the reasons for refusal. I am hopping mad. |