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I’m an active member of Barlaston Allotment Association (BAA) and have been tied up for the last six months trying to get the correct permissions to have installed on our site two port-a-cabins units. This would be of no gain to any one person but to the whole allotment community. These cabins would replace our rain shelter and give us a storage unit with a WC. To fund it we got a lottery grant and it was hoped the units would have been in place from November 2008. The local planning refused permission, but it was thought that if we re-submitted there would be no problems as we have the full support from our parish council and village. The resubmission was held back until the Allotment AGM, 19 Jan 2009 in the local pub. Where a borough councillor turned up to listen in, on what we were going to do about our planning resubmission, he was asked to leave by our chairman as the borough councillor was not a member of BAA, he refused and sat in the pub while the meet when on.
The next day I got an email telling me that he going to object with list objections, well I thought no problem as all of his objections are addressed in the new design and access statement. The application was re-submitted, at the last parish council meeting 4/02/09 the allotments can up for discussion and the parish council meeting was an open forum so a number of plot holders attended the meeting where the parish council gave there full support. The borough councillor, who also sits on the parish council, had some objections but was not there to discuss our new submission. So with the full support of the parish the plot holders went home. Late that night I was informed that the borough councillor had turned up late to the parish council meeting and had informed the parish council that he was objecting to the planning permission because the way he was treated at our AGM, being asked to leave!
Does any one have any comments?
If any one wants to help us you can leave a comment on our planning by going to our web site www.barlastonallotments.co.uk
I’m an active member of Barlaston Allotment Association (BAA) and have been tied up for the last six months trying to get the correct permissions to have installed on our site two port-a-cabins units. This would be of no gain to any one person but to the whole allotment community. These cabins would replace our rain shelter and give us a storage unit with a WC. To fund it we got a lottery grant and it was hoped the units would have been in place from November 2008. The local planning refused permission, but it was thought that if we re-submitted there would be no problems as we have the full support from our parish council and village. The resubmission was held back until the Allotment AGM, 19 Jan 2009 in the local pub. Where a borough councillor turned up to listen in, on what we were going to do about our planning resubmission, he was asked to leave by our chairman as the borough councillor was not a member of BAA, he refused and sat in the pub while the meet when on.
The next day I got an email telling me that he going to object with list objections, well I thought no problem as all of his objections are addressed in the new design and access statement. The application was re-submitted, at the last parish council meeting 4/02/09 the allotments can up for discussion and the parish council meeting was an open forum so a number of plot holders attended the meeting where the parish council gave there full support. The borough councillor, who also sits on the parish council, had some objections but was not there to discuss our new submission. So with the full support of the parish the plot holders went home. Late that night I was informed that the borough councillor had turned up late to the parish council meeting and had informed the parish council that he was objecting to the planning permission because the way he was treated at our AGM, being asked to leave!
Does any one have any comments?
If any one wants to help us you can leave a comment on our planning by going to our web site www.barlastonallotments.co.uk
..jacob
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