Hi Bluenote I guess the documents were an important missing link in my conversations so far. Like any rural area families go back generations so it's easy for them to make life awkward, especially if they want something from you, and this corner is all about controlling the access to their land it seems as sharing does not seem to be part of their vocabulary? I have just had a look at your KL links, thanks for the prompt. I have just tried to embed the boroadcasting widget onto my blog page without success. It will be useful if I could manage to do that for quick access to the individual broadcasts, as it looks as if I will need to make many repeat visits once I start.
A bit more history for you Bluenote:- It was farmer Rex Goodban, who, during his time as Chair of Manston Parish Council in 2009, stood up alongside to support his farmer colleague Arthur Burbridge (who owns the farmland opposite my mother), at a planning committee meeting in January 2009 and lied by pretending to speak for the residents of Flete Road to give the appearance that opposition to their planning application for a dwelling was fully justified?
It's sometimes hard to tell which of these two farmers owns what around there? But because of their "intervention"(which caused the application to be rejected - in spite of previous support/encouragement for a build by then head of Regeneration, Brian White), a two year temporary planning permission had to be quickly applied for. This was laughed at by Councillors when placed before them a few months later in May 2009. They mercilessly used the occasion of this 2 year temporary permission application hearing to serve an enforcement notice against them. Thanet Council did something similar to them again in 2011. This time over a rotten flat roof of an outbuilding which needed to be replaced. A replacement pitched roof was agreed with TDC officer, Steve Albon following discussions with the builder. Then, months later, having heard nothing more about the matter, they were served an enforcement requiring, not just the pitched roof be taken down, but the enitre building be restored to it's original basic unsafe state, or be demolished completely? This remains in force, even though they sleep in it now and have nowhere else to go. The planning department refuses to acknowledge the seriousness of the mental health issues that affect the man living there, the severity excacerbated by the behaviour of TDC Planning Department, as described by NHS Mental Health professionals overseeing his care. He lacks the mental capacity to make any alternative plans for the future.
Thanks SG, for publishing these documents. Exposure is the best way to go, imo.
ReplyDeleteAre the two antagonistic neighbours interested in that piece of land for themselves, do you know?
How are you getting on with KL? Is it beginning to click yet?
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ReplyDeleteHi Bluenote I guess the documents were an important missing link in my conversations so far.
ReplyDeleteLike any rural area families go back generations so it's easy for them to make life awkward, especially if they want something from you, and this corner is all about controlling the access to their land it seems as sharing does not seem to be part of their vocabulary?
I have just had a look at your KL links, thanks for the prompt. I have just tried to embed the boroadcasting widget onto my blog page without success. It will be useful if I could manage to do that for quick access to the individual broadcasts, as it looks as if I will need to make many repeat visits once I start.
A bit more history for you Bluenote:-
ReplyDeleteIt was farmer Rex Goodban, who, during his time as Chair of Manston Parish Council in 2009, stood up alongside to support his farmer colleague Arthur Burbridge (who owns the farmland opposite my mother), at a planning committee meeting in January 2009 and lied by pretending to speak for the residents of Flete Road to give the appearance that opposition to their planning application for a dwelling was fully justified?
It's sometimes hard to tell which of these two farmers owns what around there? But because of their "intervention"(which caused the application to be rejected - in spite of previous support/encouragement for a build by then head of Regeneration, Brian White), a two year temporary planning permission had to be quickly applied for. This was laughed at by Councillors when placed before them a few months later in May 2009. They mercilessly used the occasion of this 2 year temporary permission application hearing to serve an enforcement notice against them.
Thanet Council did something similar to them again in 2011. This time over a rotten flat roof of an outbuilding which needed to be replaced. A replacement pitched roof was agreed with TDC officer, Steve Albon following discussions with the builder. Then, months later, having heard nothing more about the matter, they were served an enforcement requiring, not just the pitched roof be taken down, but the enitre building be restored to it's original basic unsafe state, or be demolished completely? This remains in force, even though they sleep in it now and have nowhere else to go. The planning department refuses to acknowledge the seriousness of the mental health issues that affect the man living there, the severity excacerbated by the behaviour of TDC Planning Department, as described by NHS Mental Health professionals overseeing his care. He lacks the mental capacity to make any alternative plans for the future.