Was a very busy day, with work, then to the Town Hall with residents of Bradman Road to hear the Licensing Committee grant the gating order. I expected there to be objectors present but none were there. Straight after that, it was off to the Birds and Trees Residents Association meeting with Steve Williams at St Mary’s Church Centre. The meeting was well attended and various issues were raised with the Police and with me and Steve. They will all be dealt with today hopefully. Whilst me and Steve were in the warmth, a canvass team was out knocking on doors, I am told great results again. Tonight both me and Steve will be back on the knocker……
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I will tell you why there were no objectors to this Gating Order, at least as far as I am concerned.
I wrote a reasoned objection to the order to the Council and delivered it by hand (it was during the early threat of postal disruption).
I received no acknowledgement whatsoever; nor did I see any notice of the meeting in the Council published legal items, which I look at in the papers.
Coupled with the fact the posted notices for the proposed closure were not positioned in accordance with the law, this may have been to ensure that users of the footpath in question would not have seen them.
Is this the Council being inept or devious?
In any event it lead them open to complaints of maladministration, which I shall seriously be considering at this point.