There was a Welcoming Committee….
….at the Civic Centre yesterday, when I arrived for my first meeting as Leader of the Liberal Democrat group at MDC. The welcoming committee was not there to greet me, though; they were protesting about the prospect of development of rear gardens at Clipstone Road West, Forest Town.
I avoided them ‘like the plague’ because being on the Planning Committee that was meeting to consider the applications for permission to build on these gardens, if I had spoken to the protesters I would not have been able to cast my vote on these two items.
As it was, having read the planning applications over the previous couple of weeks I had already come to the conclusion that a site visit was called for. Even with the help of Google maps it is hard to picture exactly what these two sites look like, so I proposed that Committee members visit the two sites and at the vote this was unamimously backed by the rest of the Planning Committee. Once these visits have taken place we will return to deliberate and debate the applications.
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