| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Wonky “illegal” car park to get planning permission | |
| Posted by: | Adam Beamish | |
| Date/Time: | 04/01/21 16:19:00 |
| I'm not denying it happens Raymond, I know from experience that it does. But that doesn't give anyone the right to cry foul whenever it suits them. Have you read the 20 page Officer report to the 7th January committee ?. What more explanation do you want ? - other than it is a basic principle of planning law that a retrospective application must be treated in precisely the same way as a proposed application. And in the interests of full disclosure, the author of that report has worked at Hounslow for 20 years so is known to me in both a professional and personal capacity. However, I haven't had any dealings or communication with him, in either a professional or personal capacity, for several years. I made the point on an earlier post that we want the same thing, I want the bad apples rooting out, and I want Councils to properly investigate such allegations, but by the same token I also want the 99.9% good apples to feel that they can go about their jobs without random people, without any evidence, accusing them of being corrupt and not being challenged. You talk about integrity but it works both ways. If you publicly allege corruption (and writing "more backhanders, no doubt" is as clear-cut an allegation of corruption as they come) without any evidence then what does that say about your own integrity ?. Irrespective of the subject, be it planning, sport or politics, I don't understand how anyone, and you're clearly an intelligent individual, can be so stupid or reckless to post on a public forum "more backhanders, no doubt" only to then acknowledge that they have no evidence to support those words. |