3 November - Golf Pods bad. Go Ape good
I generally try to file BiB emails at least once a month but sometimes the chore gets deferred. I have no recollection of commenting on this one from six weeks ago.
Will you be doing a piece on the anti Go Ape gaggle that cited many claims
around wild life disturbances, clay soil compaction and youths from out of area
cutting cats heads off compared to 21,000 people trampling the park to see a few tonnes of explosives launched in the air along with hundreds of tonnes of
machinery for the fair.
Certain Councillors appear to have no issues with the display but take issue with Go Ape.
The Go Ape protests seem to be very weird to me and that is not just because
their leaders showed themselves to be very unpleasant people. Councillors have
been rather divided. Reform UK activists who
successfully put paid to the
ludicrous Golf Pod idea were against Go Ape too but
their offer
to assist the gaggle people was rebuffed. If there was one, an official
Reform Bexley policy was not revealed.
Incidentally, Councillor Barry Saunders’ (Conservative, Falconwood & Welling)
comment about
feral youths decapitating cats was not something he made up for effect.
Whilst I will never be able to find it again, I recall a report of such activities
appearing on a local news site.
Whatever the case, the Ape Gaggle didn’t want anything to do with Reform. Their
loss. Their
GoFundMe for the gullible has stalled at little more than half the target
required for the threatened Judicial Review.
A more recent message offers thanks for the IP address report to be found at the
foot of every BiB page. Apparently it helped solve the reader’s technical
problem, I am not sure how. Perhaps this is the time to repeat that IP addresses
are not collected and only the reader sees his own address. It takes just one
short line of code.
1 November - Reform (Bexley) annihilates Bexley Council’s planning department
It
was
reported here ten days ago that Reform UK (Bexley) had submitted a 29 page
demolition job to Bexley’s planning department on their recommendation to allow
a noisy golf practice facility within a few feet of the houses in South Gipsy Road.
The mistakes made by officers of Bexley Council, if that is what they are, some
might harbour less generous opinions, were simply incredible. Always accepting
the word of the applicant, dismissing independent acoustics reports commissioned
by objectors and misleading Planning Committee Members are enough to give
credence to those who imagine brown envelopes being exchanged.
I do not envy anyone given the job of answering
Reform’s 29 pages of
complaint and evidence (PDF) and lucky for them they may not
now have to. The applicant has withdrawn his application to blight the lives of
everyone living near to the Crook Log Sports Centre.
It would seem that in Bexley, if you need something done, it pays to get its
smallest political party on side. Labour raised no objections to the Golf
Pods and their Planning Committee Members offered a little support. On the
Conservative side, only
the Chairman appeared to have serious misgivings.
Now Reform is free to concentrate on their
complaints against Cabinet Member Bishop.
Index to Golf Pod blogs.