Monday 7 June 2010

Tesco's planning application and the Town Council

There was only minimal discussion about the Tesco planning application at the Town Council meeting tonight as the planning documents had only been received by the Town Council this morning.

The new Mayor, Elizabeth Weston, urged all the Councillors to borrow the documents to read thoroughly, before a special meeting is held on the 28th June to discuss in more detail.

The Councillors voted to hold the meeting in public, but not to allow public participation. They felt that there would be other forums where members of the public can express their view verbally.

The Council do urge as many people as possible to discuss the application with their local Councillors, and to write or email the Council with their views. The Councillors were reminded that any objections can only be on planning grounds.

A list of Councillors is available on the Council Website, although this town council have decided that they will not list the individual councillors addresses, phone numbers or email addresses.

Even the Town Clerks email address doesn't appear to be listed. (pbuckley@tenburytcouncil.entadsl.com)

The Council also discussed the revised planning application for the housing on Oldwood Road, but it was clear (in my opinion) that some of the Councillors either hadn't read the application and the supporting documents, didn't understand them or perhaps didn't believe them.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Can I just ask for clarification on what [objections must relate to] "Planning Grounds" are then in the context of the latest blog entry? - Thanks..

@WR15 said...

I'm not quite sure what your question means but what I was trying to say is you can't (extreme examples) object to Tesco's because you don't like the colour of their logo, but could object if you felt that their application breached one of the local plan objectives.

Anonymous said...

That's good thanks.. Can I just double-check where folks can access a paper version or downloadable copy of the Tenbury local plan then? Many thanks again..