| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:"Flawed analysis" | |
| Posted by: | Roland Gilmore | |
| Date/Time: | 23/08/11 09:07:00 |
| Thanks for the link Dennis. It doesn't appear so much that TW are ploughing on regardless but that they have no other option under current planning legislation. The part of the blog that shines out is "..they (TW) will also have to go through the charade of producing and making up to 14 planning applications to the local authorities along the Thames in the reasonably firm knowledge that these will immediately be declared to be unnecessary." Unnecessary because the current government (as with the last government) may decide it is a "nationally significant infrastructure project" and ammend the 2008 Planning Act OR make provision in their proposed "Localism Bill" to curcumvent the normal planning process. The only upside for TW customers of this eventuality would be that government would then be bound to contribute to at least part of the cost. The government have already allowed TW to take over privately owned sewers. You should have received the TW leaflet "Important changes to the ownership of your sewers" that describes some of the consequences e.g. higher bills. This will increase further in 2016 when they take over private pumping stations. I don't recall any public consultation on these measures. Was there pressure from the public for them? I don't think so. TW are persuing expansionist policies and government is going along with them. As you say, it doesn't bode well for public opinion or for challenges to this avaricious monopoly. |