Letter: A plea to the leader

Mr Barrow I ask you personally to get involved in this miscarriage of planning justice. We have given Mr Kilby every opportunity to rescind this application, but we are now forced to let the council taxpayers of Shropshire decide if these plans were passed in a democratic, morally legal way.

Mr Barrow, we want to give you the opportunity to intervene in this matter as when this planning fiasco goes public and names are named no one can say they were not informed.

Do you know why, all the criteria for this application to go to committee was ignored? Do you know why there are no minutes of the alleged meeting between Mr Walpole, Mr Wynn, and Ms Townend? Is it usual to have to resort to using the Freedom of Information Act to get any response to our questions as to why this application has been passed?

If you consult the link Mr Kilby sent us, it states that decisions under delegated powers must be recorded.

Can you tell us why there are no records or any sort of evidence to where this meeting took place? Or any information that convinced them to pass the plans, when the 500 signature petition against it and the 47 letters of objection and all the Wem councilors were against it? What about the ground water flooding issues, the below standard drainage system developers are planning to tap into, the narrow road that will not be safe with the added construction traffic plus a least an extra 50 cars twice a day extra?

Nobody seems to be able to answer our question why this planning application was so important to pass or what facts the planner and the chairman, the vice chairman of north Shropshire Planning Committee had to hand that outweighed all the negative facts that meant the last three times it has gone before a planning committee it had been thrown out.

These were democratic hearings with minutes and witnesses to see that fair play was seen to be undertaken.

Mr Kilby states in the open letter he published in the Shropshire Star to try and defend your planners' actions, you seek to deliver the planning process in an efficient open and transparent manner. This application is not open and far from transparent. All those involved in this planning fiasco should hang their head in shame.

M Sargeant, For the Roden Grove objectors, Wem