21 August - Will Bexley Council ever tell the truth?
It is always a little frustrating when readers send interesting information and then say I must not publish it.
In the most recent case I planned on defying the instructions and make vague allusions but yesterday most of it
leaked on to X which allows me to relax a little on any confidentiality requirements.
In case you didn’t see them, the X posts returned to the issue of the Oakwood sports
ground alongside the VCD Athletics ground. The owner, Oakwood Pavilion Limited, is Kulvinder
Singh by another name. He has been seen driving the Oakwood excavator and it was
one of
his Leather Bottle henchmen who assaulted me there a week ago, but Bexley
Council pretends to know nothing about it. People have asked, I have seen the
replies, and they say there have been no Planning Applications and it is basically a man attending to his £1·2 million garden
which he is entitled to do without permission.
That
is true enough but Bexley Council knows exactly what is going on. It is all in their Local Plan documentation from 2022 and 2023.
Here is the relevant extract.
More recently, former Conservative Crayford Councillor Geraldene Lucia-Hennis was telling her residents that she had been fighting for the best
deal for four years. It is all out there on the web but Bexley Council know nothing about what is going on!
Most of the sports facilities will be restored, the Councillor said, including tennis courts and
football with padel where the bowls club used to play.
There will be two blocks of new houses, seven in one, eight in the other, and a new site entrance with car
parking. But Bexley Council knows nothing about it.
I
have a copy of the plan handed out by Mr. Singh to interested parties including Bexley Council.
I do not live nearby and have little interest in sport but it looks a decent
enough scheme to me. But Bexley Council knows nothing about it.
The thing is, as always with the schemes Mr. Singh
proposes, is not whether they are good or bad but why he finds it necessary to
have his men assault those who take an interest in his activities and why Bexley Council backs even the most
dubious of plans. Like Ye Olde Leather Bottle and 238 Woolwich Road. Time and
time again work gets under way without planning permission which is then
retrospectively waved through. On the rare occasions enforcement notices are issued, nothing happens.
If a developer is effectively told he can do what he likes and Bexley Council
will always bend over for him, then one can hardly blame him for taking advantage of it.
But how has that situation come to pass?
In recent years the enterprising Mr. Singh has often been seen side by side with the former Planning Committee Chairman
and his wife but that cosy arrangement pre-dates Councillor Brian Bishop’s appointment as Planning Chairman.
And how come he hobknobs with other Councillors too? John Davey and Geraldene
Lucia-Hennis are shown here and the Mayor comes running when summoned.
It is hard not to think something unsavoury must be going on, but what?
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