20 December (Part 2) - Bexley Council. Is it ennobled at the top and nobbled at the bottom?
I have made the same mistake before, confusing Woolwich Road and West Heath
Road and thinking any planning application therein must be associated with
our
old friend Kulvinder Singh, which is how I came to spend so much time watching
last week’s Planning Committee Meeting. 2 West Heath Road being among the addresses under consideration.
It
is a long time since I looked in on a Planning Meeting so I was a little
surprised to see it was no longer Chaired by the affable Councillor Peter Reader
and his former Deputy, Councillor Brian Bishop, has taken over the reins.
I know nothing about Brian Bishop except for the photographic evidence that he and Mrs. Bishop are great mates
with the Singh family, well known to long term BiB readers as property
developers here there and everywhere and famed for everything from falsely accusing me of attempting
to photograph their grandchildren to
attempting to run me off the road while driving.
Despite it looking like a waste of my time I persevered with the webcast because
Councillor John Davey was going to object to more building in West Heath Road
and my suspicious mind wondered if that might be because it is only a few doors
away from his own address. In John’s own words “It is an excessively large
structure for this garden considering the shape of the garden at this point
which is somewhat unusual. This property has had a number of applications and an
enforcement action. Previous construction has not conformed [to] the Planning Applications.”
He went on to list six recent Planning Applications which had been approved
but why only six is unknown, there have been 18 since 2018. One needs deep
pockets to fund that sort of number. It is the sort of behaviour we have come to
expect from a certain quarter.
The new Application would have been nodded through by Planning Officers if it was
not for John Davey’s intervention. He announced at the meeting that he didn’t much like the
plans, as is his right.
As Councillor Davey indicated, it might be a long meeting and it was, tedious too. At the two and a half hour mark all the Councillors took a short break, John Davey included. Who he may have spoken to while off camera is not known but he said it was a Planning Officer. One well versed in the art of arm twisting presumably because there was a complete volte-face from the former objector…
That is very weird isn’t it? How is it that excessively large suddenly isn’t?
Who might be behind the application? Could it be another of the Singh clan?
The Singh name is everywhere, even next door to me but the name on the application is
Mr. I Khun Khun without a company name, Google
however threw up Mr. Inderjit Singh Khunkhun of 2 West Heath Road trading as ISK Construction Limited.
Fly-by-night building companies in this part of the borough bearing that name
are best not left univestigated. They tend to be linked. Am I about to bark loudly up a wrong tree?
Note: There was
an
anonymous allegation two years ago that 2 West Heath Road did in fact belong to you know who. Well
the same architect was involved so it probably does.