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News and Comment April 2022

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27 April (Part 1) - Where next?

Now that we have reason to believe that Bexley’s Planning Committee is compromised by its close relationship with the borough’s best known property developer, should we be looking for more such liaisons?

It was suggested that I look at Perminder Singh Kang who nominated the Conservative candidates in Erith. He runs BSD Ventures Limited from his address at 106 Bexley Road, Erith and its business is “Buying, selling and managing real estate on a fee or contract basis”.

106 Bexley Road is locally listed and a House of Multiple Occupation with plans for 16 apartments to be built on the site. (21/03064/FULM.)

There is of course one very big difference between Mr. Kang and Mr. Singh. Perminder Kang is not obviously best mates with the Vice-Chairman of the Planning Committee with a string of questionable planning applications (and non-applications!) and H&SE infringements behind him. You can’t go around banning property developers from joining political parties. What next? Publicans can’t risk meeting a member of the Licensing Committee or cycling club leaders being able to directly influence the Transport Committee? Oh, better not go there!

What else is going on? Not a lot. For the record I eventually convinced my energy provider that the Smart Meter display unit that they call an IHD did not calculate costs correctly, or even close. It is much better now. The gas readings seem to be exactly right but electricity costs are still over-estimated for ְ‘today’ but when the figures are dumped into the History folder they magically correct themselves.

Octopus have said they are still learning and grateful for the bug reports but I remain puzzled by the fact that they are tweaking a individual IHD and not running standard software on them all. I got my total consumption down to £1·56 yesterday and it’s really not been all that that difficult. No children is probably a good place to start. More seriously the eleven year old solar panels are proving to be one of the best investments ever and yesterday was a sunny day.

I have a feeling there was something else. Another senior moment!

 

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