Concreting over the County

County Council Trading Away Democracy and Residents Right to Object?

As your well aware from our past scrawlings we laymen are from a variety of backgrounds and some of us still have solid ties with our past lives. Through these links we are able to bring politics from the other side and not simply from the party political viewpoint.

Well via our links with the construction industry and the midnight rantings on social media from a new MP we believe that as ordinary people in the street you need to know whats going on that could be entirely in the interest of investors and totally against your interest as County residents.

In the Trumpiest style, the Tories in Northumberland under yours and of course our own noses have been making secret decisions that have not been brought into the public domain, one of those decisions is to openly trade planning permissions through the pre-planning process.

Developers paying for pre planning advice is not illegal, its not even unlawful but it does destroy your right as a citizen to object too and have your voice fully heard on planning matters in your area and we believe its morally wrong to entice trade from a public service that is wholly based on trust.

The Council have made contact with developers and set up a  forum where land agents, builders and investors can discuss with planning officers how they get around difficulties in developing their land banks in Northumberland and once the dowry, or is it a ransom? is paid for pre-planning advice those difficulties will be managed away.

Northumberland is now a dream world for developers and we will see the Council collecting very valuable Council tax from properties in areas you never thought of over the next few years and we will also see the Tories concreting over even more land in their desire to profit from ‘little box’ construction near your home.