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Councillors’ threat over Cleobury Mortimer planning row
Thursday 9th September 2010, 10:42AM BST.
COUNCILLORS IN a Shropshire town have threatened to tear up planning training certificates in a dispute over a controversial planning application.
Cleobury Mortimer Parish Council members are angry that an application for four homes on the car park of the former Three Horseshoes pub was recommended for approval just two weeks after the planning application was deferred.
In an e-mail to Shropshire Council’s planning department, unitary and parish councillor Gwilym Butler said a number of parish councillors and officers would attend the meeting and rip up certificates they had collected for attending planning workshops run by Shropshire Council.
Councillor Butler, parish clerk Matt Sheehan and Rob Mills, Shropshire Council’s area planning manager for south, are to meet tomorrow.
Parish councillors and residents had claimed that the homes would have a major impact on elderly residents living at nearby Mortimer Gardens. The issue was deferred at a planning meeting in Ludlow last week.
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Councillor Butler said: “The feeling is that due to the lack of further information on this application and inclusion, councillors are going to attend the meeting, bring their planning training certificates and tear them up in response to the lack of communication and response to their rational community interests in the application.”
Mr Sheehan said: “We objected on the grounds of the effect it will have on elderly residents. It’s going to change their whole way of life.”
Rod Owens, of agents Millennium Construction, said while they understood the concerns, they were “not planning issues”.
Gareth Proffitt, press spokesman for Shropshire Council, said the issue had been deferred to Tuesday’s meeting, which will be held at Westgate in Bridgnorth at 2pm.
By Peter Kitchen
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