From: Councillor Harvey
[mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 20 January 2017 18:45
To: 'Cllr Debbie Baker' <[email protected]>
Subject: NDP Questions
Dear Debbie,
Please find attached some questions I have regarding the
management, oversight, content and rationale for the Ledbury
Neighbourhood Plan.
I was disappointed that neither FTP, you - as the designated
chairman of the plan, the deputy mayor – as the titular chairman of
the plan, nor any NDP Group members were prepared to answer
even the simplest of questions put by me at Wednesday night’s full
council meeting dedicated to the Neighbourhood Plan:
• The reason for spending £5k on a call for sites when a massive
planning appeal was outstanding should have been able to be
called quickly to mind.
• Similarly, the reason for including the Cricket Ground in a map of
protected green space over a year after planning permission
had been granted to build 100 homes on it should not have
been difficult to recall.
• The reason to leave out a strategic wildlife corridor from proposed
protected green space and then offering up a large portion of
it for development wasn’t forthcoming
• The rational for the group boldly bypassing the ‘Options’ stage of
the process seemed similarly troublesome to explain.
• Cllr Fieldhouse’s inability to differentiate between Bloor, Bovis
and, no doubt, Barratt elicited sympathy in the room. Those
pesky builders with all their ‘B’ words!
Some of my questions may be easier to answer than others,
depending upon how well organised the group has been in building
its evidence base as the work has progressed.
If you are not able to provide me with the answers to all these
questions in time for the full council meeting in 2nd February, please
will you advise me in advance of that date as to which answers will
be delayed.
As a minimum I would like the questions I asked on the night and a
list of the council decisions which approve the plan moving forward
at each stage of its development to be provided with reference to
the meeting minutes at which the decisions were made.
I also append the email containing all the questions I have asked
over recent months which you have publicly refused to
acknowledge as correspondence received and which the
Neighbourhood Plan Group members appeared to be unaware of.
Kind regards,
Liz Harvey