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Warden Parish Council are Wonderful!

Warden parish council at Newbrough, voted against the planning application last night (yippee!) and openly discussed it (the chair included the public in accepting additions) and  formulated a statement that was quite strong in it's opposition. Although I doubt that it is strong enough in that it confined itself to "facts" something that doesn't seem to trouble the professional planning consultants at Prism (the agents).

There is big money behind this proposal, the council is concerned (terrified?) that a rejection would lead to an appeal and costs (thousands? tens of thousands? hundreds of thousands?) as happened at Bishop Auckland and the strong suspicion that even the council don't understand the complexities of the National Planning Policy Framework.

Maybe we need planning consultants to help our case, a sort of Michael Mansfield of the planning world, maybe there is one living in the valley somewhere who might be up for a pro bono, anyone in your network come to mind?

Kirsten Francis (chair of Humshaugh council) has just been in touch and  has checked with Planning and they can still submit comments as long as they are in by Friday 12th so the Fourstones AD will be discussed on Wednesday 10th at Humshaugh Village Hall (Supper Room) meeting starts at 7.30 p.m., all welcome.