Yesterday was the first day of the Examination in Public of the GNDP's Joint Core Strategy and by all accounts it is going to be an interesting three weeks ahead with calls already been made for GNDP to withdraw the strategy.
On day one there were complaints about the apparent furtive way in which the GNDP had carried out their business. The point was made by many of the participants that the way in which the GNDP had decided to hold their meeting behind closed doors was undemocratic and when the Inspector mentioned that they could have chosen to have open meetings with sensitive issues been discussed below the line, the response was "we chose not to do it like that". Elected representatives sometimes had to resort to Freedom of Information requests to gain information from the partnership which doesn't sound very transparent and begs the question whatever were they trying to hide? Not only from the public but from councillors outside this elite body which had originally been formed as "an informal partnership following the designation of the area as a New Growth Point".
Apparently our very own Blog was used as evidence to show that the GNDP were either incompetent or had deliberately tried to make access to their website difficult.
Bless SNUB for representing the Community at this hearing as Broadland DC could not care less about the local residents, all they want to do is concrete over our farmland and destroy our village so that the Developers can make their fat profits. We do not have a Democracy anymore in Broadland, just a dictatorship. The Examplar is just the start.
ReplyDeleteThank you SNUB for representing the locals. Just wish we had a District Council who did the same. When are our Elected Members going to stand up against the Planning Officers who seemed determined to destroy our Broadland area.
ReplyDeleteThe time has come to ask our two District Councillors just where do they stand. Are they supporting us OR the developers. Vital we know this before the elections next May.
ReplyDeleteOnce you reach out beyond the District Council you realise that it is not just local residents who have reservations about the way in which this has been conducted. It even includes councillors who almost as disenfranchised as we are.
ReplyDeleteLets hope the inspectors make the right decision about the Joint Core Strategy. I cannot see how they can come to any other conclusion other than it is seriously flawed and needs to be abandoned. No Plan B says it all. No NDR means it cannot go ahead. Surely?
ReplyDeleteIt is time these people were brought to book,they have been behaving most undemocratically for too long and have engendered a great deal of mistrust and sceptisism with their overbearing positioning and manoeuvering. Let us hope these inspectors come to the same conclusion and take the appropriate action.
ReplyDeleteI attended a meeting of the Enquiry at a huge parking cost for the day. Horrified to learn that the GNDP Quango who is supposed to be planning for our future meets in secret behind closed doors. Surely this cannot be Democracy.
ReplyDeleteAlso who is paying for the GNDP Barrister ? I bet it will be us the taxpayers.
Beware of all Developers bearing gifts. They are not interested in Broadland only their fat profits.
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