4 August - Bexley Council: Now what have they got to hide?
While
writing about the outrageous plan to
subject the residents of South Gipsy Road
to the constant noise of golf club against ball all day every day until
9 p.m., I obviously wanted to read up on what those residents had said, but their
comments were not on the Council’s website. Everything else was there, but not public comments.
I assumed it was a temporary glitch but apparently not. Two days later there are
still no comments. We cannot see what was said or who might have said it.
It begins to look very fishy. What is Bexley Council trying to hide this time?
Constant gunshot sounds from ten practice pods will be intolerable and a short
site visit to a similar facility can in no way replicate the experience of
living next to such a noise all day long.
The Planning Officer who said out loud at a public meeting that such noises were acceptable must be out of
his tiny mind. As well as noise there will be floodlighting. No one yet knows
how intense that will be and still the Planning Committee failed to reject the application outright.
The applicant, GolfPodCo, already has two pod facilities which are pictured on
their website (see below) and neither of them are only 50 feet from neighbouring houses.
The application is a cynical attempt to distract a penniless Council from its primary purpose of protecting its residents.
The fact that our Council has not will provoke all sorts of suspicions as to why they have not.
