A number of apparent anomalies in Mr Brown’s planning application may have led to its just-published refusal, by an EDDC officer. But should the application it have been heard in public and how many councillors would have had to disqualify themselves from the decision-making if that had happened?
It is also to be noted that, whilst he was leading the East Devon Business Forum and Chairman of the (then secret) Local Development Framework group at EDDC, he may have been aware that he was in a difficult planning position regarding his own home.
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