[Livia]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

An idiot...
Once permission has been sought via application what else can be done?

Is that how applications are granted, you have to sit in attendance at council meetings? Being a farmer this may be impractical perhaps.

I would say it was Mr Pickles who made the person who issued the temporary permission appear unprofessional,they will have no doubt have been adhering to the law as it stands.

Members of the public are entitled to, and regularly attend Parish council meetings. If he had an interest in planning he should have gone along. But he sat on his hands for and then threw up a buil;ding without planning permission. Why would being a farmer impact on his ability to pursue his own planning permission? The constituency in which I worked was rural and farmers seemed to be able to handle their own business quite adequately. He had time to build an entire house but not to attend meetings that could have benefited him, nor to approach councillors who represent him?

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Livia

Members of the public are entitled to, and regularly attend Parish council meetings. If he had an interest in planning he should have gone along. But he sat on his hands for and then threw up a buil;ding without planning permission. Why would being a farmer impact on his ability to pursue his own planning permission? The constituency in which I worked was rural and farmers seemed to be able to handle their own business quite adequately. He had time to build an entire house but not to attend meetings that could have benefited him, nor to approach councillors who represent him?

That's not what I asked...
I said if he had gone down the correct route off applying for planning permission what would have been the benefit of attending meetings?

He had submitted an application, what more can be done via local councilors?
(besides backhanders obv)

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

That's not what I asked...
I said if he had gone down the correct route off applying for planning permission what would have been the benefit of attending meetings?

He had submitted an application, what more can be done via local councilors?
(besides backhanders obv)

The benefit of attending meetings is to be there when your planning application is put on the table and discussed. If there is a problem or a question you're there to answer it. And if your application isn't coming up you ask why not, and the Parish councillors for your area will take it up with the local council. Parish councils are non-political.

If he did actually submit an application, his local district councillor would be able to check on progress for him. Councillors are there to represent you, whether or not you voted for them. They are public servants.

You keep talking about corruption and backhanders with not a shred of evidence save the word of a man who's already broken the law.