This year, the parish clerk, has responded 5 times to planning applications on behalf of the Parish Council, which is allowed given permission. There hasn’t been a parish council meeting to grant the clerk responsibility for this important role (as far as I am aware – will amend if I am mistaken). This means the clerk has been operating without an electoral mandate, if my assumption is correct. Therefore, logically, I ask why have a parish council, if this is how democracy operates? One person responding on the behalf of the council and the village, without permission is clown world.
Finally, as we are all aware, the majority of residents were in favour of the application, S25/1033, except the parish clerk at the parish meeting. It is clear that our parish council do not believe in democracy, they should be in local government to represent the village views. The reason given to refuse S25/1033 was ridge & furrow land.
If ridge & furrow is the reason for the objection, then the houses ringed in red, were clearly built on this type of land in the past. Also, the ploughed field has clearly levelled the historic ridge and furrow land over the years and no one complained to the farmer about that! Talk about crazy planning and a crazy parish council. Logic = 0. If people were concerned about history they would protect and restore the ice house.
I detect a pattern here, when a house was proposed on the Fenton Road “barn” at the edge of the village, it was also refused. Talk about a NIMBY world. If both proposals had been for a 100 high density houses then I could understand the decisions, but they were for extremely low density developments.
Image below from Google Earth.
