| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re: This is becoming a habit | |
| Posted by: | Vanessa Smith | |
| Date/Time: | 21/02/15 12:30:00 |
| Letter in The Chronicle from a resident of Gresham Rd. Hounslow complaining about Hounslow's plans to build an extension for Oaklands School on open space adjacent to the Conservative Club. There was a public enquiry when housing was built on part of this area (formerly the L.T. Sports Ground) some years ago and the decision of that enquiry was that the space should remain open to the public until 2018. The writer is also concerned that the communication from the council about this proposal consists of 'A small A4 size notice posted on the entrance to the Hounslow Conservative Club'. He asks that it wouldn't it have been better to 'send a letter to all residents of Gresham Rd. just as a matter of courtesy?'. Apart from all the concerns for those residents regarding parking and traffic it is the contemptible behaviour of the council that is once again in question. This tying of A4 sheets on gates instead of a decent open and transparent consultation process is becoming all too frequent, and then they wonder why local people get the hump. We know from our experience that what local people want gets short shrift from our elected representatives, this gets more like a dictatorship every day. Either we have councillors who haven't a clue or a backbone, or they are bone idle and sit back and let unelected paid officers do just as they like, in any event they are going to come mighty unstuck one way or another if they persist in carrying on in this manner. |