Musings from the Merse
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Fishwick Folly Fails to Flounder
If you have the stomach to go to http://eplanning.scotborders.gov.uk/publicaccess/tdc/DcApplication/application_detailview.aspx?caseno=J304S7NT70000
you will see that as we were concentrating on the Hustings the proposal to build six houses and a new bit of road at Fishwick has been approved. Not by the Berwickshire Area Committee but by 'the chairman's delegated decision' . At least it is the Chairman and not the 'Depute' Big Jim Conundrum. And there are conditions but not yet specified on the website. There you are. Berwickshire planning at its worst and a decision just taken before the election in case, no doubt, the new councillors might have wanted to say no. And a decision taken in the teeth of opposition from the local Community Council (referred to, disparagingly by the architects as 'the Parish Council') So we must be in Northumberland, must not we? There is local knowledge for you. And a nother horse and cart (or rather a gas guzzling Range Rover) driven through the Building in The countryside and Local Plan guidelines. Like forged fivers they are now not worth the paper they are printed on.
And all predicated on a monstrous fib-that a new road is needed in Fishwick because of its dangerous traffic.
Believe that.......
If you have the stomach to go to http://eplanning.scotborders.gov.uk/publicaccess/tdc/DcApplication/application_detailview.aspx?caseno=J304S7NT70000
you will see that as we were concentrating on the Hustings the proposal to build six houses and a new bit of road at Fishwick has been approved. Not by the Berwickshire Area Committee but by 'the chairman's delegated decision' . At least it is the Chairman and not the 'Depute' Big Jim Conundrum. And there are conditions but not yet specified on the website. There you are. Berwickshire planning at its worst and a decision just taken before the election in case, no doubt, the new councillors might have wanted to say no. And a decision taken in the teeth of opposition from the local Community Council (referred to, disparagingly by the architects as 'the Parish Council') So we must be in Northumberland, must not we? There is local knowledge for you. And a nother horse and cart (or rather a gas guzzling Range Rover) driven through the Building in The countryside and Local Plan guidelines. Like forged fivers they are now not worth the paper they are printed on.
And all predicated on a monstrous fib-that a new road is needed in Fishwick because of its dangerous traffic.
Believe that.......
Comments:
A classic piece of SBC planning. How some of these people can sleep easy in their beds baffles me. I hope the CC is going to keep fighting.
I fear that this may have gone to far beyond the CC to gain redress. All we can work for is to ensure Farmer N honours his committment to build, at his expense, a decent new road to bypass the 'dangerous' corner on Mayhem Mile. Dual Carriageway, two sets of lights, two pedestrian crossings and a Little Chef. That may cut into his profit marginsa a bit.
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