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Stoneshifter S
Stoneshifter May 8, 2009 09:30:26
Replying to nigelswift

Herding cats - do you fancy co-sponsoring a formal complaint on the bypassing of the planning process by the county council ? How about two complaints? 1 Northumberland (already underway) and 2 Cumbria (I don't even know the name of the estate but have one photograph of their unplanned road - should show up on GoogleEarth?

My hops have never been used for brewing yet. It is only last christmas that I encountered a postman that would take them. It's herbalism. And political activism (as the plant is the closest relative to hemp and has its mildly hallucinogenic flowers commercially harvested). It's also the most expensive vegetable listed on some EU list - the shoots are sold as asparagus substitute somewhere (not Gateshead).

N nigelswift
nigelswift May 8, 2009 10:21:07
Replying to Stoneshifter

"do you fancy co-sponsoring a formal complaint on the bypassing of the planning process by the county council ?"

I'll sign anything, me. And if you want examples of planning processes not being bypassed but twisted outrageously so someone can make shedloads of dosh I can supply a list.

Ten-thousand name petitions don't work as they somehow don't get presented to the planning committee.

On paper, the Local Government ombudsman is your man if it's maladministration (i.e. misapplication of their own rules). We have heritage protection legislation that works immaculately well on paper so I expect he does as well.