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SUSSEX EXPRESS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 2004

CHALLENGE TO 'GREEN' BUS HOMES

It is not surprising that Jack Gore and David Logan should be so out of touch as not to recognise the shift in thinking concerning peoples right to enjoy a lifestyle that suits them.  The kind of thinking that enforces against anything out or the ordinary is outdated and frankly, well past it's sell by date.  Check out Channel 4's 'Grand Designs'.

In granting permission for three years, a Planning Inspector upheld the (human) rights of two couples to live life in two busses at Quicken Wood at Blackboys, Framfield.  Solar panels and wind turbines had been installed to provide electricity and other modern conveniences fitted.  Commendable we say.

What is so predictable, is that once again Wealden (see bushy wood rebuild) having had their noses rubbed in it, have the bare faced audacity to apply spin so as to defend their decision to waste yet more ratepayers money to pay David Phillips and his crew of life wreckers some more overtime.  

It is reported in the Sussex Express that: Wealden and Parish councillor Jack Gore said "members of the Wealden Development control committee unanimously considered this a disgraceful verdict".  We say it is disgraceful that the whole bunch of them got it wrong.  It's about time we voted in some young blood capable of seeing the needs of the people, rather than pursue their hidden agenda to conventional staid, and largely unaffordable houses for retired bank managers and stock brokers - their mates!  You guessed it and much more lucrative in the brown envelope department, we'll wager.  You can't get brown envelopes from free thinkers.

For years a Conservative Wealden District Council have pursued policies designed to attract the wealthy few.  In order to do this the council's enforcement department has been allowed to chase off mobile homes and any other person of limited means - as undesirable.  Then came the Human Rights Act.  Now, slowly, in fact very slowly, the tanker is being turned.  Wealden's "land for the rich" policy has caught them short of thousands of homes that should have been built for ordinary folk.  

Not only that, but having encouraged their enforcement officers to acquire a taste for blood, they just can't see the wood for the trees any more.  Gas chamber?  I see no gas chamber!  It might be kinder to line up travelers and free thinkers and shoot them.  That's how they minimise the suffering of cattle in slaughter houses!

WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW - Is that decisions that affect your lives are taken in secret - papers never revealed - papers that could show the council acted unlawfully!  SEE BELOW-

C/02/0748/FFD

FRAMFIELD Unauthorised storage/parking of residential buses and motor vehicles and a trailer, upgrading of existing track and parking area, one new building and container and two lean-to extension attached to buses. DCN0216  Quicken Wood, Blackboys Framfield.

(That, subject to legal opinion, appropriate enforcement action be taken to:- (1) cease the residential use of the land;

(2) remove all buses (including lean-tos) motor vehicles and trailer from the land;

(3) remove the hardsurfaced track and parking area from the land and restore the land to its former condition;

(4) seek the removal of the solar panel and two wind turbines and non-agricultural items from the land;

(5) demolish and remove the unauthorised building; (6) seek the removal of the container from the land; and

(7) remove from the land all associated equipment, materials, debris and rubbish arising from compliance with (1), (2), (3) and (4) above.)

292/02 MEMBERS' QUESTIONS, PROGRESS REPORTS ETC.   Mr. I.Kay.

EXCLUSION OF THE PUBLIC RESOLVED in accordance with the Local Government Act 1972, Section 100 (A) (4)
that the public be excluded from the meeting for the following item(s) of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraphs 13 and 15 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act:
HO0001 Members enquired whether officers have a check list of statutory consultees when an application is being processed. A Member asked for assurance that neighbours are always notified when a planning application is submitted and asked that consultees be notified at the earliest possible time. Members were assured that in accordance with the Council’s “neighbour notification” policy, this carried out, together with Site Notices in appropriate cases, and that steps are being taken to speed Councillor D.B. Ryde Chairman

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