While I am still generally sceptical about what the LLTNPA Board does because of its terrible record of taking decisions in secret (13 meetings about the camping byelaws before they were approved) these emails do appear to reflect levels of Board involvement. I have heard elsewhere a Board Member say they were NOT allowed to say anything about the Flamingo Land Planning Application in case this prejudiced the decision. Effectively staff have told them to be silent – the emails which tell Board Members to refer any enquiries about the Application to staff re-inforce this. This perhaps explain why Board Members never raised any of the obvious public interest questions about the inclusion of the Park’s own land in the Planning Application.
Month: December 2019
VAL WALDRON’S POST ELECTION DIARY
The rise, or rather the inflation of Jo Swinson is not the only story in town, but the themes are strong in this one. I’d have been hard pushed to pick Jo out from an identity parade until she made her grandiose and delusional claim that she could be PM. As our collective memory gradually starts to write her out of our consciousness, it only remains to pick over those shards of glass from that “Glass Ceiling” resignation speech:
CONSERVING HELENSBURGH TOWN CENTRE
Helensburgh Town Centre has just been designated a new conservation area by Argyll and Bute Council.
The designation recognises Helensburgh’s special architectural and historic qualities and will promote the high quality built environment. The next step is to prepare a Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan. This plan defines what is special about character and appearance of the conservation area and how the way the space is used may change.
UNISON CHRISTMAS OPENING HOURS
Hat tip Sean Davenport
BOSSY SNP CONVENER TURNS OFF THE MICROPHONES
The arrogance of West Dunbartonshire’s Depute Provost Karen Conaghan is breath-taking. I have watched her and some of her SNP colleagues giggle their way through council meetings, where her party’s austerity policies have been implemented with a heavy hand. And to utter under her breath supposedly why The Dumbarton Democrat’s representative should be allowed into the council chambers to cover meetings. But her self-important superciliousness, which involved switching off the microphones of two senior Labour councillors and preventing them from asking perfectly legitimate questions about a delayed report on the future of West Dunbartonshire schools, is intolerable