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24 Feb 2015

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Democracy, Knowle/Honiton/Exmouth relocation, Local Plan, Transparency

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EDDC changing meeting dates to force through Knowle relocation and land grab days before ” the period of heightened sensitivity” would require delay till next council

What a terrible indictment of a council that its one “achievement” will be voting itself a new building in Honiton and its most dreadful lack of achievement will be the lack of a Local Plan which has left us all at the mercy of greedy developers (many of whom were members of the East Devon Business Forum – chaired by disgraced ex- councillor Graham Brown).

How will it do this: by changing the dates of scheduled meetings to force a (whipped?) vote as explained on Claire Wright’s blog (claire-wright.org):

“The Cabinet meeting scheduled for 18 March has been brought forward a week and will now be held on Wednesday 11 March 5.30 start

(The agenda will include a report on the Office relocation) Cabinet members, Chairman of the Council and Chairman of O/S, please note that the Cabinet briefing will now be held before Council on 25 February (tomorrow) before Council.

A joint meeting of Overview and Scrutiny Committee and Audit and Governance Committee will be held on Thursday 12 March at 5pm. This is an additional meeting. This will be a single issue meeting to discuss and make recommendations on the Office relocation report discussed by Cabinet the previous evening. The recommendations of Cabinet will be referred to that joint meeting. If members of the joint meeting are in agreement, the meeting will be chaired by Tim Wood, Chairman of the O/S Committee with Ken Potter as Vice Chairman. The internal and external auditors will attend.

An Extraordinary meeting of the Council will be held on Wednesday 25 March at 6.30 pm to make a decision on the Office relocation. This is an additional meeting. Recommendations from Cabinet and the joint O/S A&G committee will be reported to that meeting.”

2 thoughts on “EDDC changing meeting dates to force through Knowle relocation and land grab days before ” the period of heightened sensitivity” would require delay till next council”

  1. Well this is certainly a meeting to be recorded on video and broadcast far and wide so that everyone in East Devon can see how devious many of the present regime at EDDC can be.

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  2. No surprise !! . They are rattled and know how strongly people feel on how they have wasted OUR money on this shambolic process ….

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