“A disgraced former councillor is seeking a ‘certificate of lawfulness’ for his Ottery St Mary farm house – after breaching a planning condition for more than a decade.

Graham Brown, who is also a past chairman of the controversial East Devon Business Forum, is applying on the basis he has not been using the house to conduct agriculture from – a condition of the original planning permission.

In March last year, former Feniton and Buckerell councillor Mr Brown resigned his seat after he was caught on camera boasting that he could secure planning permission as part of his professional work as a planning consultant.”

Which begs the question, given that his planning consultancy Grey Green Planning Ltd (incorporated coincidentally 10 years ago in 2004) isn’t big enough to merit full public accounts – what exactly hAS he been doing all these years?

If he wasn’t engaged ” in agriculture” why was he the National Farmers Union representative on the East Devon Business Forum?

This source implies that he may have had a holiday cottage business or businesses:

http://companycheck.co.uk/director/901546332

If so, why did he not declare these interests, particularly when he chaired the EDDC Local Development Framework (aka Local Plan) panel – especially as it visited many tourism venues such as Crealy and Sandy Bay ( in secret) to discuss their inclusion in the Local Plan – both for employment land and housing development?

Initial source: http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Disgraced-councillor-seeks-make-Ottery-St-Mary/story-22898229-detail/story.html