| "T&W Council Make The Rules As They Go Along" |
Posted on 1st January 2010 @ 05:28:42 |
George Ashcroft
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Here are extracts from correspondence from representatives of the Town Centre to Telford & Wrekin Council from December 11th and which were released to councillors some two weeks later on Demcember 31st. An absolute disgrace - both in the delay and in the antics of T&W under Andrew Eade.
"We act on behalf of Telford Trustee NO.1 Limited and Telford Trustee NO.2 Limited (lithe Trustees"). Today Telford and Wrekin Council ("TWC") will have received a planning application from the Trustees for a supermarket and other mixed use development at the Red Oak Car Park. This application is
expressly intended to accommodate Asda's desire to have an improved store, but to do so in the town centre in accordance with policy.
You were informed by Drivers Jonas, the Trustees' planning consultants, that the Trustees intended to submit this application in early December 2009 and that it and the Asda application needed to be
considered together. Contrary to previous indications from your department that the Asda application was to be considered at the 6 January 2010 meeting of the Plans Board, the Trustees were shocked to discover that it has been brought forward for consideration at the Plans Board meeting on 16 December 2009. Amongst other failings this has resulted in the officers' report being rushed out in advance of the end of the consultation period (today) in the knowledge that the Trustees and others had yet to complete their full responses.
The officers' report cannot be considered a complete or a sufficient basis for determination. We enclose additional representations prepared by Waterman, the Trustees' environmental consultants, identifying the serious shortcomings of Asda's Environmental Statement which need to be remedied prior to any determination.
Consequently, the unseemly haste in seeking to determine the Asda application and the fact that this is being done before consideration of the Red Oak application only adds to the existing impression that TWC is not approaching the application in respect of its own land in a manner expected of an objective planning authority acting in the public interest.
NABARRO LLP |
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