Public gain the right to speak at planning meetings
Friday 11th November 2011, 2:29PM GMT.
Jim Rowles, Director of Plannning Control, Deputy Peter Sirett, Minister of the Environment Department and Steve Smith, Chief Officer of Environment, at a media briefing about the open planning meetings. The public will be able to speak at future gatherings.
MEMBERS of the public will be able to speak for the first time at this month’s open planning meeting.
The Environment Department announced the move yesterday ahead of Tuesday’s meeting.
Anyone who wants to air their views has this weekend to prepare a representation to the department in writing about the application.
They would also have to notify Environment in writing – before noon on the working day prior to the date of the meeting, ie. Monday – of their intention to speak.
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Typical, always some catch with this lot.
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Thats the house that the bougourds built too big le haut in st andrews the one that the clamer was rasied. the planers are know saying the new owner can have a extension lol, all that tax payers cash that must have gone on stoping the bougourds building. jim sort your lot out.
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Would that be the St Saviours Rowles who married the girl Doodah from the Dos D’ane and possibly the Torteval Smiths?
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….open planning…transparency…and we are allowed, under condition, to speak…these must be the people who invented the word juxtaposition?
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So you can speak, bet your bottom dollar it would make no difference to the already decided outcome, and funny this comes after one of the most important decisions the board have had to make in many years!
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Anyone else think this is just a rushed attempt to create some good publicity for the department ?
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Anyone else think this is a case of damned if you do, and damned if you doubt? First of all we all complain that things are decided behind closed doors, then we complain we can’t talk at ‘open’ planning meetings, then we complain and/or accuse the States of some sort of duplicy when they do permit it, with some relatively sensible caveats.
Is anyone truly suggesting that everyone should be allowed to pitch up off the street, unannounced, and speak for however long they wish. We complain about the States for not making decisions – see how long it would take under that little free for all.
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You make a valid point, time will tell how the open meetings go.
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