” …. However at last night’s meeting, committee chairman [of Ottery Town Council’s planning committee] Councillor Ian Holmes said that in an application for a replacement driveway in 2005, Mr Brown stated that he had 325 cattle and hundreds of ewes and lambs.
And he said, in 2008, in an application for a horse menage, he had 160 acres, 70 at Ware Farm, and around 80 beef cattle and around 200 lambs which wintered at the farm.
We must now wait to see if EDDC arranges for this to be decided by officers behind those oft-closed council doors or in public by the Development Management Committee …
What was that promise about transparency made by Leader Diviani?
And can we now expect a swift re-convening of the Task and Finish Group which was supposed to look at the influence of the East Devon Business Forum (Chairman – the council’s Business Champion and erstwhile Chairman of the council’ first Local Plan Panel, planning consultant builder (and possibly farmer) Graham Brown)?
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Could there be other councillors at town and parish level also waiting for ten years to elapse before, for example, the massive extension they promised would only be for “holiday lettings” becomes something else altogether?
Luckily, with ace planning chief Helen Parr driving past one such potential example every time she leaves her home town, surely not? If she is in any doubt, she could seek advice from her parish council’s planning chairman. Or his wife the finance chairman.
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