He We Go Here We Go Here We Go Again
The WW was at the Farnham Town Council Meeting, but instead of reporting it ourselves we accept let our own resident/s take their say… Oh and if anyone wonders where we were – nosotros were sitting about the back in a mask, and cape…looking a chip like this really
So Hither We Go AGAIN in Farnham with the annual ritual of the Town Quango Meeting for residents but no elephant in the room nether the twinkling chandeliers of the Bush Hotel's briefing room?
No demand for an elephant, Farnham has its own monster looming over the boondocks and threatening to bruise over the will, wishes and good sense of its protesting citizens.
We accept East Street, Brightwells Evolution Scheme, which has loomed big for and then long that some people had most ceased to believe it was real. Only subsequently 15 weary years, the alien creature is getting off its knees and showing worrying signs of life.
After a restless oversupply had listened in polite silence to a beaming Pat Frost, so happy to take been Mayor in this lovely town, and the usual procession of worthy councillors reporting on the flowers and festivals, cemeteries and allotments. Came the crunch.
Everyone knew why, just like all previous years, the room was full of undercurrents, a mumbling grumbling presence and the reason that most of the Farnham Folk had made the endeavour to turn out on a wet Thursday evening. They'd come to take their say most the monster.
And a new presence filled the room, knowledge of the daze revelations that very twenty-four hours on the Waverley Web, that first-class source of news for Waverley people, and the only way that they learn the truth nigh the dirty dealings going on behind closed doors.
WW says, "The shock and anger was palpable. Residents fumed, the air was combustable -and at one signal we idea it would implode!"
Just who was going to let that go when all around resolutions were being made to check the alibi, sift out the facts and take it to the top. Surrey Pensions Committee Chairman and Waverley and Surrey Councillor, Denise Le Gal, has a lot more questions to reply. They all know in Farnham that the scheme has been rejected over the years as an investment by reputable city institutions so what does 'Denise the Girl' know that wiser men than her accept been unable to observe. You said it – it'south a rum business.
Another big question had to exist well-nigh that doomed daft Local Plan:
"In the context of Farnham's Neighbourhood Plan, residents were told that Waverley BC was commissioning a thorough professional person report of traffic around the town conducted by Mott Macdonald in the same manner that a review had been commissioned and completed in respect of the development proposed for 1800 new homes at Dunsfold Park.
Every bit we take heard recently that the new homes allocation for Farnham in Waverley'southward Local Plan is to be increased to 3000 (aye, that's right, 3000) , information technology patently becomes e'er more crucial that a full-calibration traffic review for Farnham is completed urgently and before the Local Programme is put the Inspectorate for Test. If this is not done information technology volition be impossible to adjudicate on whether the three,000 effigy is sustainable. We would then be left with another failed Plan and a continuing invitation to developers to despoil dark-green fields.
Please would a member of the Town Council'southward Neighbourhood Plan team tell us what they know about the progress or otherwise of the traffic review and requite assurances that they will printing Waverley for completion of the LP – as a thing of urgency?" A roar of approval and an enthusiastic round of applause followed. People wanted answers but there were none.
Even Carole Cockburn lead Councillor for Farnham's Neighbourhood Plan, was being kept in the dark past Waverley Planners. A promise was made to press for action so we volition watch and look. What choice exercise residents have in the face of the absolute, secretive and undemocratic power exercised by Waverley?
And finally, what must have been the highlight of the evening. An initiative from ex-Farnham Councillor, David Beaman, a councillor who always did an excellent chore for the town and his electorate until he was unfairly given the heave-ho by a combination of bad luck and political manoeuvring. He put forward a resolution asking the audience to vote for their Boondocks Council to support the Farnham Interest Group in taking legal action against WBC/CNS to stop the iniquitous apply of a variation of planning permission to get round proper procedures for that Brightwells Scheme. (Full text to follow)
Residents voted resoundingly for the motion so now Iain Lynch, the Farnham Town Clerk, Ian Lynch has the task of asking Boondocks Councillors to obey the volition of the people.
Just in case anyone forgets hither information technology is:
RESOLUTION TO BE PRESENTED AT ANNUAL Coming together OF ELECTORS OF FARNHAM Town Council HELD ON THURSDAY 24th MARCH 2016
Farnham Town Quango (FTC) has consistently expressed its desire for an alternative evolution of the East Street site and has objected to a number of applications to implement and vary the present planning permission granted for this site. Members will as well exist aware that doubts accept been cast on the legality of the existing planning permission and each application to vary the existing planning permission has been subject to close scrutiny past the Farnham Involvement Group (FIG). Following the latest awarding to vary the planning permission (WA/2016/0268) FIG has written to WBC and every private WBC councillor warning that the proposed variation is illegal and that if pursued legal activity could follow. I therefore wish to suggest that should FTC also object to the proposed application on the same grounds equally FIG, electors at this meeting resolve that FTC should support a public appeal to raise funds to comprehend the costs of any legal activeness that may ensue.
Farnham is clearly not in the mood to requite fashion to its monster, its bete noir. So watch out Waverley Council the people of Farnham are in a fighting mood!
Source: https://waverleyweb.org/2016/03/29/here-we-go-here-we-go-here-we-go-again/
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