| Topic: | Objection to Benches | |
| Posted by: | John Cameron | |
| Date/Time: | 06/04/18 07:16:00 |
| @ Alex You points are all valid, but revolve around areas which ignore where my argument is focused. My point is simple, that 1871 Act does not allow commercial alienation of the commons, and the trustees are breaching the founding legislation by granting it. Both the trustees and the planners as LPA have legal obligations and they cannot ignore them. If they do, they in turn are behaving unlawfully. The trustees are taking the same approach to the benches as they did to Putney Hospital, making up the rules to suit themselves and ignoring the Act. The trustees are elected / appointed to enforce the founding legislation, they cannot ignore it in order to earn a few bob. If they can, then by taking that approach to its logical conclusions they have a legal obligation to consider all commercial activity on the same basis. The reason that they commons have remained unspoilt by commercial use for nearly 150 years (apart from the odd shady deal over property) is because trustee have upheld the Act. |