Comments on: Planning applications – response from the Deputy Mayor http://www.brianrobson.org.uk/2009/11/30/planning-applications-response-from-the-deputy-mayor/ Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:02:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Peter Ling http://www.brianrobson.org.uk/2009/11/30/planning-applications-response-from-the-deputy-mayor/comment-page-1/#comment-18696 Peter Ling Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:01:12 +0000 http://www.brianrobson.org.uk/?p=997#comment-18696 The devil is in the detail! This giant christian symbol is clearly no detail. Let us pray that the safeguards that the Deputy Mayor says are in place overide the delegated discretioanry judgements that have allowed this to get so far. The devil is in the detail!

This giant christian symbol is clearly no detail. Let us pray that the safeguards that the Deputy Mayor says are in place overide the delegated discretioanry judgements that have allowed this to get so far.

]]> By: Rosie http://www.brianrobson.org.uk/2009/11/30/planning-applications-response-from-the-deputy-mayor/comment-page-1/#comment-18495 Rosie Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:28:17 +0000 http://www.brianrobson.org.uk/?p=997#comment-18495 Thanks very much for trying Brian. For what it's worth, many of us here who will be forced to live with these multi-coloured, 30-foot "details" on a daily basis agree with the requirement for transparency and clarity on such issues. I rather wonder what "safeguards" the Deputy Mayor is referring to in her statement - when a Council-sponsored and agreed decision is then open to "challenge" by another senior Council official who, by the way is accountable to no-one. Hurrah for this marvellous system of democracy and openness we have in Lewisham; I hear the Local Govt Ombudsman calling loud and clear. Those of us who were at the meeting at Northbrook School last week realise the extent to which the Deputy Mayor speaks with self-centred and politically focused forked tongue and we will remember it at the long-awaited ballot box. Thanks very much for trying Brian. For what it’s worth, many of us here who will be forced to live with these multi-coloured, 30-foot “details” on a daily basis agree with the requirement for transparency and clarity on such issues. I rather wonder what “safeguards” the Deputy Mayor is referring to in her statement – when a Council-sponsored and agreed decision is then open to “challenge” by another senior Council official who, by the way is accountable to no-one. Hurrah for this marvellous system of democracy and openness we have in Lewisham; I hear the Local Govt Ombudsman calling loud and clear.

Those of us who were at the meeting at Northbrook School last week realise the extent to which the Deputy Mayor speaks with self-centred and politically focused forked tongue and we will remember it at the long-awaited ballot box.

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