| Topic: | irony, in post modern | |
| Posted by: | John Cameron | |
| Date/Time: | 17/11/12 07:03:00 |
| Residents fight the good fight and Wandsworth write self-congratulatory puffs about themselves. I haven’t read their in house article spinning the spin, but let’s consider Wandsworth’s track record for a minute. So what exactly do WBC have to be very pleased about? In no particular order, edited highlights include... Threatening WPCC with a CPO if they don't take the money, leaving the Conservators in an unlawful agreement, but £250,000 better off. Or not, time will tell Ignoring planning law, granting themselves a "free pass" to disregard the legal obligation of having to prepare an Environmental Impact Assessment, which is not only unlawful, but also totally irresponsible Hold a community consultation for 3 hours, on a weekday afternoon, and send Cllr Maddan to tell attendees “This is the councils own application to themselves, there is no point in opposing it” Submit a planning application that holds an all comer’s record for errors, which the planners declare promptly declare valid, clearly not having bothered to read it first. It was, after all the councils own application, no need to be picky about ticking the right boxes Submit 4 more applications, each and every one of which is invalid. Get the planners to lie by denying the rather obvious unlawfulness, compounded by more lies by the applicant to attempt to cover up the planner’s lies. Declare application invalid, then spin that it will allow more time for resident's consultation; expect residents to believe it Produce a transport study, based on a desktop assessment, having told the consultants there is no need to visit the site. A site that is on one of the busiest and most dangerous roads in the borough. Include 24 luxury flats to help subsidise the necessary investment, despite the Chief Executive of Wandsworth confirming that the planning for residential is an unacceptable use for the site. Don’t bother to include a single affordable home in the scheme Design a school with a playground on the roof, and then defend it publicly by arguing that playgrounds on the roof are based on the finest Victorian benchmarks for inner city schools. Disregard some 800 objections from local residents who object formally to the application Issue press releases to spin the scheme, stating that land is to be returned to common, when the stark reality is that the common, which is protected by law, is going to be sold to provide access for the over intensive / greedy design Wandsworth have nothing to be self-congratulatory about, unless it is their shameful disregard for planning law, democracy and deceitful lies |