[UK-CONTEST] Planning Traumas in Lincolnshire - one step forwards, two steps backwards

[Rob Harrison]

Hi Nick,

My daughter is a planning officer and she agrees interference is not a 
planning issue. More to the point how did they attribute the interference to 
you, it could have been any nearby transmission, taxi, police, fire, etc.

Unfortunately the planning committees are not soley made up of planning 
officers, and other members could have other issues at stake. My daughter 
more be rich if see had a £5 for every application that was approved by the 
planners only to be denied by the committee, then overturned on appeal 
costing the council more money. Local government at it's finest.

Bob G8HGN


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Totterdell" <ntotterdell at riverauto.co.uk>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 12:09 PM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Planning Traumas in Lincolnshire - one step forwards, 
two steps backwards


>
> Firstly - many thanks to everyone who has posted a message of support. 
> There is absolutely no doubt that these comments have helped; they do not 
> carry the weight of a local opinion but they are still significant. The 
> majority of the opposition comments are also from outside the village.
>
> The planners eventually recommended the application for approval but 
> unfortunately this is not the end of the story....
>
> At the planning meeting on Thursday, one neighbour spoke against the 
> application for three minutes - she did not mention that any case of 
> interference (breakthrough) had ever occurred.
> I spoke for the application for three minutes.
> The ward councillor spoke against the application for three minutes (I did 
> have a quick word with her - perhaps stupidly - and asked her how she 
> could justify speaking against the application when the parish council 
> that she is chair of had previously written a letter to the secretary of 
> state accusing me of collusion with an appeal inspector which was 
> completely unfounded - I showed her a copy of the letter and she denied 
> that she had contributed to it - I then consulted the legal fellow who 
> advises the committee and he said that he saw my point but this couldn't 
> prevent her from speaking). Again, she made no mention of interference.
>
> The committee discussed the application and were about to approve it when 
> one of the councillors picked up on one sentence from only one of the 113 
> letters of opposition which mentioned that there had been some strange 
> voices on their telephone on one occasion (SSB Field Day). This neighbour 
> had never mentioned this to me or given me any opportunity to address it 
> and this incident had been fully discussed with the planners and mentioned 
> in their recommendation for approval. How can you deal with a case of 
> breakthrough when you are completely unaware of it and also the neighbour 
> in question would rather spit at you than speak to you?
>
> As a result of this one single isolated case of breakthrough the council 
> then voted to allow me to continue for a trial period of one year. So I am 
> now no further forward.
>
> Of course this is completely unsatisfactory as any neighbour who objects 
> can now claim that there is interference every time that I put an aerial 
> up. I am not going to the trouble of putting up aerials and not 
> transmitting just to call their bluff. It also gives these neighbours no 
> incentive to actually address any breakthrough problems.
>
> So now I will wait for the detailed consent letter from the council and 
> then will submit an appeal against the trial period on the basis that I 
> have already operated radio from the location for an entire year and had 
> there been a significant problem with interference this would have been 
> identified by the opposition neighbours, who went to every single property 
> in the village to solicit support for their campaign. So another trial 
> period is completely unnecessary.
>
> Thanks again for your support.
>
> I will let you know how things develop!
>
> 73 Nick G4FAL
>
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